Hack a Nintendo Wii-Mote for Instant Electronica with a Theremin

To tell the truth it's pretty rare to see anything approaching a gregarious, people-filled Nintendo lifestyle image when my Wii gets busted out for company. More often than not it's a co-op slugfest; that would be the snail-like, 'I don't want to get off the couch' slug, not the fisticuffs loving one. So, why do I have extra Wii Remotes laying around? Well, in my mind one day I could feasibly awake miraculously changed into an ingenious sort, just like the guy in the videos below.

Like Johnny Lee and others, he has hacked the motion sensitivity of the Wii Remote to create something entirely different than was intended. In this case, we are talking the horrific electronica of a classic Sci-Fi sounding theremin. Again, I'm no genius, but this hack looks pretty simply done by inverting the Wii Remote(s), aiming it/them at LEDs and running the sound through some free programs loaded on your PC and then through a synthesizer. Instant cheesy sound effects for that Web movie you are itching to make. So, once you tire of all those Nintendo mini-games, get to writing a few lines of code and see what else you can do with your gaming technology. Here is the hack explained.

And here, the master is at work massacring the Star Trek theme:

--Tom Milnes