Making a Wii remote talk to Pure Data (PD)

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Making a Wii remote talk to PD could be fun. You have a pretty-accurate/not-over-sensitive accelerometer inside a Wii remote. Also, there are a bunch of LEDs and a pager motor (vibrator) inside the Wii that can be used for a lot of fancy purposes.

In this guide, we assume that you are running Ubuntu on the Beagleboard. You need a bluetooth dongle to let the computer and the remote pair with each other. To finish this task, we need to install a bunch of packages and patches to