Results for Wii

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on January 21st, 2008:

• Bubblegum Sequencer – Making Music With Candy – Bubblegum Sequencer is a physical step sequencer that lets you create drumloops by arranging colored balls on a tangible surface.

Bubblegum Sequencer – image by n8agrin

• WiiYo: IR LED + Yoyo + WiiMote – Cool DIY project involving WiiMote’s IR Camera and Max/MSP
• Instantizer.com – Free online graphics tool – wrap pictures into a polaroid-style frame

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on November 29th, 2007:

• Digital Music, Universal, and Why Water is Thicker Than Coke – Peter Kirn reflects on Doug Morris (Universal’s CEO) saying in an interview with Wired:
  

  “Really, an album that someone worked on for two years — is that worth only $9, $10, when people pay two bucks for coffee in Starbucks?” Morris sighs. “People never really understand what’s happening to the artists … If you had Coca-Cola coming through the faucet in your kitchen, how much would you be willing to pay for Coca-Cola? There you go,” he says. “That’s what happened to the record business.”

  HijiNKS ENSUE posted a comic in relation to the interview here.

• Beijing restaurant Engrish menu items – Stir-fried wikipedia with pimientos, and Steam eggs with wikipedia
• An Entirely Other Day – Complete Receipt Defeat – Breakdown in inches of a Toys R Us receipt, a foot and a half in total length.
• Arduino NES to MIDI Project 1.0 – Hooking up MIDI and a NES controller to the Arduino.
• Wii Strum – Patryk Laurent’s Air guitar for Wii remote + Nunchuk, a Wii strumming app free for Mac (uses Java).

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on November 27th, 2007:

• Wiinstrument – Ever wanted to have a cheap external MIDI controller that’s wireless? Or to play a groovy drum loop in your sequencer without having to set note delays manually? Wiinstrument is a MIDI instrument that is controlled by a connected Nintendo Wii remote.

Wiinstrument on Leopard

• Geek Hacks Laptop, Puts in Electric Guitar (with Video) – Musician/geek Ben decided to dispose of his old laptop by putting it in an electric guitar.
• Pushpin MIDI Music Synthesizer for the Game Boy Color – Pushpin converts your Game Boy into a MIDI ready device that you can control from any keyboard, sequencer, or software.
• Native LucasArts games emulation makes iPhone absolutely perfect – Play your favorite LucasArts games on your iPhone with ScummVM.
• human after all: about daft punk’s bearbricks for alive 2000 – A limited edition pair of Daft Punk Bearbricks, meant to coincide with the release of Daft Punk’s Alive 2007 CD. Medicom will release 3000 of these toys on December 5, package them with a copy of the CD and sell it for 5250 Yen ($48), presumably in Japan.

Nintendo has announced Wii Music, allowing you and up to three of your friends to control an entire band or orchestra, featuring 40 instruments to choose from.

Wii Music screenshot from CVG

Players will use the Nunchucks and Wiimote to control the musicians with this possible Guitar Hero killer. This game is going to be hit or miss. It’ll either sell by the truck load or it won’t sell.

In single-player you can either control the whole band or have the CPU fill up the extra slots, and of course four-player multiplayer is the biggest touting point.

Wii Music is due in Japan next year.

Link via CVG

Handheld Remakes brings back some fond memories. This place hosts a big searchable archive of handheld games, in SWF (Flash), Director and Java formats.

You can play a few games online.

One of my favorite handhelds: Donkey Kong jr.

Nowadays we have PS3′s and Wii’s, but few games can get me excited like the way these old handheld games did. When was the last time you spent days with no end trying to beat a highscore? (It’s actually cool that Nintendo was on top of the handheld market back in the day, and that they are right there now with the console market as well).

Anyway, I think I still have the Nintendo Donkey Kong handheld somewhere, gotta go find it!

If you have a Nintendo Wii you can now use a new Google Reader interface, specifically designed for the Wii.

Google Reader Wii interface

From the ZDNet blog:

Google quietly launched Google Reader specifically designed for the Wii last night — the new interface even makes use of the buttons found on your Wiimote. On my initial digging, I cannot find a similar interface designed specifically for the PS3 browser.

To try the new interface in your current browser if you don’t have the Wii, visit http://www.google.com/reader/wii.

Link via ZDNet.