Turning a Wii Balance Board into a net-enabled bathroom scale

Re:Turning a Wii Balance Board into a net-enabled bathroom s... by johnpmayer on Saturday October 05, 2013 @11:51AM (#6501016)

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")

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Re:Turning a Wii Balance Board into a net-enabled bathroom s... by StavrosK on Saturday October 05, 2013 @12:34PM (#6501144)

They'll never catch me! Muhahaha!

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.

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Re:Turning a Wii Balance Board into a net-enabled bathroom s... by bound008 on Saturday October 05, 2013 @06:29PM (#6502319)

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.

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