Well its Wii Motion Plus release day here i the uk and the stores are full of them, so I had no need to panic about getting hold of one this morning!
The good news is that the device does not crash either WiimoteLib or my WiiCi application and the bad news is that the device does not crash either WiimoteLib or my WiiCi application so I have no place really to start.
Some information about the WiiMP has started to appear over at wiibrew however this leaves me with a feeling that getting it going in WiiCi is going to be a big job. Here is a snapshot the current state of thought from wiibrew:
The Wii Motion Plus consists of two rate-gyros. These gyros measure rotation SPEED, but can’t actually measure absolute orientation, which causes drift if not corrected by some other data source. Speed is one step better than the acceleration reported by the accelerometers. One of the two gyros will obviously have to measure yaw, since that can’t be measured by accelerometers. The other axis is unknown, but I would guess pitch. Unlike the rotation measured by accelerometers, whose axes are defined by gravity, the gyro axes are relative to the angle of the Wiimote. So even if it can measure yaw when the Wiimote is in the normal orientation, it won’t be able to detect yaw when the Wiimote is vertical.
In addition to providing yaw, the gyros also allow the software to tell the difference between orientation and acceleration, which are difficult to tell apart from the accelerometers which measure a mixture of both.
Sounds like a start from the begining job to me!
say what do you think