I was able to play in the GameStop Super Smash Brothers: Brawl tournament today. While other GameStop stores are holding the tournament tonight at 10:00 PM, the local manager here decided to hold the tournament a few hours early so that younger kids could enter.
Although I was eliminated in the first round, I really enjoyed playing the game. After the tournament was over, several of us played for a while longer, and I finally started to do well, winning several games in a row.
The game, which I’ve been anticipating for more than a year now, is as good as I had hoped it would be. I can’t wait to get it tonight when the store reopens at midnight!
I just finished playing with the new USB Wii Sensor Bar that I made.
It’s not very pretty, but it works. I just plug it into my USB port, and the infrared LED’s light up. From there, the Wii remote (connected to my computer over Bluetooth), figures out where to put the mouse using a GlovePIE script.
I made it from an old USB cable, four IR LED’s, two wires, a bit of perf board, and a wad of sticky tack.
If you want to make your own sensor bar, there are some great instructions for a much better looking finished product that I followed to wire this up.
The Nintendo Wii Remote is one of the most easy-to-use game controllers around, but did you know that you can use it to control your computer? The "Wiimote" makes a great tool for a lot of different applications, from Photoshop to Half Life. I’ve found it to be especially useful with Google Reader; see just how useful it is in the two-and-a-half minute video below.
You’ll find detailed instructions on how to set this up in the extended entry. Don’t worry, this is a really easy hack.
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I was able to play in the GameStop Super Smash Brothers: Brawl tournament today. While other GameStop stores are holding the tournament tonight at 10:00 PM, the local manager here decided to hold the tournament a few hours early so that younger kids could enter.