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Wii-js, interact with Nintendo Wii via Javascript

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Still not sure how this exactly works. This is for browsing the web on the wii, correct?

Ah, yes, I've been up all night working on some other stuff, wanted to throw this up before I sleep. Guess my title was a bit misleading, but you are indeed correct.

It's a Javascript library that makes interacting with the Wii-remotes in the Opera browser that's on the Wii event-based instead of requiring devs to constantly poll it. It also just takes into account a lot of the odd differences; couldn't find a consistent, solid API for all of this, felt like there should really be one.

Wondering what was the motivation behind this project, can you it share with us?, i can see your library getting big if Nintendo keeps their current browser on the Wii U, i too hope they push harder on the web this time

It's kind of two fold.

1) I have a large interest in teaching children how to program, and I think that getting them to build and run something on a game console speaks more to their minds than a computer. Kids by and large want to own a domain, it's just part of growing up - videogames tend to fill this role for them, so I think it's worth expanding on. There hasn't really been a game console throughout history (to my admittedly short knowledge) that a kid could just build and run stuff on.

I've got some more stuff in this vein I plan to release over the next two weeks, should be pretty fun.

2) I love Node.js, but I feel like that's where all the fun JS is happening these days. The Wii appealed to me in this regard as it's a platform where nobody had really tread this ground - there were one or two half-baked approaches around, but due to Nintendo trying to keep it kinda secret-ish none of them ever really got that far.

In a sense, the Wii is "the other other Javascript platform that nobody thinks about". ;)

First of all thanks for sharing this, i completely agree with you, Node is where all the fun is happening right now in the JS world but there are more areas where it could span specially in Gaming, since JS is growing in popularity i think in the following days we will keep seeing more places where we can use our JS skills, i just hope that Nintendo picks up where they left with their browser, but i wont blame them if they limit what you can do with it. In another topic i think that you picked a great way to empathize by working on a console, ill be paying attention to your releases. Excellent work

This looks awesome! Great work dude.

Thanks, it's much appreciated!

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