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Wiimote door unlocker
Years from now, we'll laugh at how we once depended on dated technology like keys and key cards. We'll mime the motions of manually unlocking a door while our friends guffaw at the absurdity of our adolescence. We'll all shake our heads at the joke our lives used to be.We have a long way to go before we can telepathically open doors, travel to distant star systems on a whim, or make out with holographic hussies in a holodeck, but a group of Japanese tinkerers have started taking the steps to get us there. Setting up a lock motor with a PC that accepts bluetooth commands, they've jury-rigged a door to unlock when it picks up motion from a Wii remote. Futuristic!We can't imagine this as being very secure, so don't plan on guarding your important documents or Pokemon cards with one of these DIY locks. Check past the jump for video of the setup in action.[Via Engadget]
FreeBSD adds Xbox 360 controller support
Good news for any computer gamers out there who don't use a Microsoft OS, FreeBSD has recently incorporated a patch to enable support for the wired Xbox 360 controller. From the CVS log: "They are HID-capable devices, but lack a report descriptor and don't use the standard interface class. This patch works around these deficiencies so that the uhid(4) driver can recognize and use those broken devices." I would expect Linux and Mac OS X support soon as well, putting all the platforms on the same level: that is, fully functioning but without support for tweaks button configuration. It wouldn't be surprising to see the open source community add this functionality out of the box before Microsoft does. How about it Microsoft; some better software for your pretty little controller? [Via Xbox-Scene]
