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• VSLive! New York

  I have been selected to present two sessions at VSLive! New York this September.  Here are the abstracts: Title: Creating a Simple 2D Game Using XNA Game Studio to Run on a PC, Xbox 360 or Microsoft Zune Date/Time: Wednesday, September 10th at 3... Posted Jun 27 2008, 05:27 PM by Brian Peek with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Wiimote, XNA, Events, Hardware

• WiimoteLib v1.5.2 Released

  Sorry for all of the previous confusion.  Version 1.5.2 is now up at CodePlex.  This release now has the Wii Fit Balance Board working for everyone who has tried it.  Please let me know if you have any issues with it.  The changes... Posted Jun 15 2008, 04:36 PM by Brian Peek with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Coding4Fun, Wiimote

• WiimoteLib v1.5.1 Released

  UPDATE 2: Sorry, but I've removed this release from CodePlex. It's just too buggy (though it continues to work just fine for me). Look for version 1.5.2 very soon... UPDATE: It appears some people are still having issues with this build as well due to... Posted Jun 11 2008, 05:34 AM by Brian Peek with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Coding4Fun, Wiimote

• WiimoteLib v1.5 Released

  I’m really cranking out the releases these days.  Today I have released WiimoteLib v1.5 at CodePlex .  The big news is that the Wii Fit Balance Board is now supported.  The balance board is simply a very heavy piece of plastic with 4 weight... Posted Jun 09 2008, 04:45 AM by Brian Peek with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Coding4Fun, Wiimote

• WiimoteLib v1.4 Released

  In an effort to put out more frequent builds with fewer changes, I’ve released WiimoteLib v1.4 to CodePlex .  This release contains the single most requested feature:  multiple Wiimote support.  I’m very interested to hear bug reports and... Posted Jun 03 2008, 05:14 PM by Brian Peek with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Coding4Fun, Wiimote

• WiimoteLib v1.3 Released

  Time for another WiimoteLib release! You'll find the new version in the usual place at CodePlex . What's new you ask? Why, check out this list: All projects updated to Visual Studio 2008 format SetReportType contains an overload taking a new IRSensitivity... Posted May 27 2008, 04:00 AM by Brian Peek with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Coding4Fun, Wiimote, Microsoft Robotics Studio

• Newsweek & The Wiimote

  The Nintendo Wiimote is getting some very mainstream attention lately. I was interviewed several weeks ago by Christopher Flavelle from Newsweek magazine for a story on developers using the Wiimote for uses other than playing games with their Wii console... Posted May 10 2008, 05:20 PM by Brian Peek with | with no comments Filed under: Personal, .NET, Wiimote

• Wiimote Laser Harp

  Steve Hobley recently sent me a link to his amazingly awesome project, a "laser harp" implemented using a Wiimote and my Wiimote library . The video is below. Fantastic project! Posted Apr 21 2008, 03:31 AM by Brian Peek with | with no comments Filed under: .NET, Wiimote

• Silence...

  Where have I been? Sadly, nowhere good. My father passed away extremely unexpectedly on March 4, 2008 and life has been hectic and chaotic ever since. I'm finally back into some sort of routine, so it's time to update here and explain what's going on... Posted Apr 15 2008, 06:12 PM by Brian Peek with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Personal, .NET, Coding4Fun, LegoNXT, Wiimote, Events

• WiimoteLib Survey Results

  Once again, a bit thank you to all of you who took the time to respond. I was amazed to receive 100 responses as quickly as I did. So here are the results and a few comments. 1. What type of release schedule would you prefer? Response Response Percent... Posted Feb 11 2008, 02:22 PM by Brian Peek with | with no comments Filed under: .NET, Wiimote