Hardware

the hardware used in the tests is the following:

Wiimote
Nunchuk
Xtreme Wireless infrared bar from playxtreme.it
the notebook is an Asus G2S
also in some tests a Trust Bluetooth 2.0 EDR usb adatper is used (BT-2210Tp)

wiimote software

A collection of tools used to connect and program the wiimote on the pc

WiinRemote a program that let you use the wiimote as a mouse,
it can also be customized to map wiimote buttons to keyboard keys.
it supports both motion and IR sensor

GlovePIE Glove Programmable Input Emulator, this tool is able to connect the wiimote and it is also scriptable, you can make your own scripts with little to no effort, it is also used as a generic "routing" between input devices, for example you can map joystick buttons to keyboard and viceversa

Toshiba Bluetooth stack This bluetooth stack is compatible with Wiimote. please note that unless you have a toshiba notebook, it will run only for a limited time

Bluesoleil Bluetooth stack This bluetooth stack is compatible with Wiimote, note that the demo version only allows some amount of data to be transferred between the wiimote and pc