Wiimote mouse

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So then, it might be interesting to use the wiimote as a mouse, and using it to control the interfaces on the television for Fernseher. One benefit of this would be that the design for the interfaces becomes vastly simpler in terms of any code that actually needs to be written. The same interfaces can be used on a television for watching and a laptop, if you'd rather. Since the wiimote would act as a mouse, I can just use the normal point and click that is the hallmark of the web. If I later want to add the ability for the menus to be up/down navigable, I could probably do that pretty easily underneath.

Using the mouse/wiimote as the controller allows me to almost immediately go forward with the more interesting stuff underneath. The other servers, the backend database design, synchronization, etc. I am hoping that this will be enough impetus to get me to actually work on this thing. I had started some time ago trying to build up general interface stuff, but got bogged down in getting keystrokes properly interpreted and getting the javascript stuff to actually respond properly to those keystrokes... it was a pain in the ass, and I got bored.