Hi, I'm Mark Bosco, and this is How Tube.
This week on How Tube, we're going to look at using your Wiimote with your Mac with
Darwin Remote.
Now the first thing we need to do is start up Safari, and we're going to go to blog.heroaki.jp
slash 2006 slash 12 slash 000433.html.
Again, the link will be in the show notes.
So here's the blog entry where Darwin Remote was released.
We scroll down here and we can see the download link, and just click on that.
Then it takes you to the source forage, you click on this download link, and that takes
you into another page where you click on this download link, and then that takes you to the
final page where you click on this download link.
Now it should actually download.
Okay, there it is.
We'll drag that into our applications folder, and I've already made a handy shortcut on
the desktop, so let's double click it and go.
Now when it first comes up, it asks you to press buttons one and two simultaneously on
your Wiimote, which I have had no success with, but we can go ahead and try it.
So we can just go ahead and hit those two buttons together, but our remote's not blinking.
Those lights at the bottom should be blinking.
So let's go ahead and pop that back cover off.
What we really need to do is there's this button right next to the batteries that's
called Sync.
There's a little tiny red button.
You just hit that, and that should get you going, oh no, Wiimote discovery error.
Well let's just try hitting that button again.
This is beta software, by the way, so don't expect it to work right every time.
It's still very much an active development.
Anyway, now the lights are blinking, it's gone into Bluetooth discovery mode, and finally,
we have Sync.
Now the red, blue, and green graphs at the top, you can see they're tracking how much
I'm shaking the remote around, so I decide up and down, all around, in and out, do the
hokey pokey.
Yeah.
Anyway, so the next cool thing we can do is press the number two button, and we're going
to actually turn on IR mouse mode.
And well, the only trouble being that we don't have anything infrared for our remote to sense.
So we need to go turn on the Nintendo Wii so that the sensor bar is powered.
I've got that right below the screen there.
And I also need to turn on the infrared sensor button so that the remote will go ahead and
start sensing infrared.
It's an important thing.
So we come back over here and I start wiggling around.
You can actually see the mouse cursor jumping around.
It's not really that bad.
It's just low frame rate on my part, sorry about that.
But it really does work like the mouse.
It can go over here and grab the window, drag it around.
This is live.
It's actually happening.
It's not a trick.
Not that you think it would be, but it's really cool, it actually does work.
If we go into the preferences here, you can see that it's actually already preset to work
like the Apple remote.
It's got key mappings for all the little buttons on the Apple remote, everything you might need
to do.
And you can actually add your own key mappings for whatever it is you might want to do.
So the cool thing is then, if it's already set to work like the Apple remote, all I have
to do is hit this home button here and we can have it bring up front row.
There it is.
Now the trigger on the back of the remote is what acts as like the select button on
the Apple remote.
So we just hit the trigger and then we can go down through our videos, go to video podcasts.
And we can scroll down until we find something we like.
Oh, hey, how to.
That sounds interesting.
Ah, yes, there it is.
Last week's how-to.
Perfect.
Well, I hope you have fun experimenting with Darwin Remote and figuring out what you can
make it do on your Mac.
If you have any questions or if you'd like to look at the show notes with the links,
please visit us at howtube.com or you can email us at howtube.gmail.com.
We'd also love your suggestions for future episodes.
Thanks for watching.
