The Wiifit Balance Board is very cool and one of the very very rare cases where I tried to play with the hardware. I went through blog article after blog artic

The Wiifit Balance Board is very cool and one of the very very rare cases where I tried to play with the hardware. I went through blog article after blog article, trying to figure out why I couldn't connect to it through Linux. Then I realized there was already a proper device driver made years ago and the blog articles were vastly out of date. You can get the data directly using evdev on linux w/ Python. It was such a fun device for a project too, my daughters enjoyed jumping on the balance board just to see what numbers it would toss out. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be that hard to use it to develop balance games for Linux - the only problem is with battery life and the annoyance when pairing it.