What's so striking to me is that the barriers to prototyping these peripherals for general purpose use has been lowered significantly. It was not long ago where it took days of hacking to connect a Wiimote to your PC, and even then you probably wouldn't get full functionality.
Good work and thanks for sharing!
(also, obligatory "now the NSA can estimate if they can chase you on foot")
Seriously, though, that's because many people have put many hours of work into reverse-engineering protocols and writing libraries, which is fantastic.
This wouldn't be a two-hour job if so many people hadn't open-sourced their work.
Any trained operative can size up someone they are chasing with daily weight data
Also, just ordered a third party version for $16.47 with amazon prime: http://pys.me/Trc
It says that it is compatible with wii fit so I am hoping it uses the same protocol.
Good work and thanks for sharing!
(also, obligatory "now the NSA can estimate if they can chase you on foot")