Wiimote used in physics class

We don't remember much of our own Physics class back in high school. That's probably because we slept through most of it. Still, the quiet rebels we were, we managed to recall our experiment with the Pendulum after reading about this experiment. Why choose the Wiimote? Well, the accelerometer, up until now, has been a costly item to obtain.

"Similar projects have been already proposed using a simple mouse," says Samuele Straulino from the Università di Firenze. "We therefore realized that a more sophisticated controller (like the Wii Remote) could be also more useful in developing simple experiments to be done with secondary school students." Sure, they're not playing games, but we can always get behind people being exposed to the Wii. And we always love it when people try and see what they can come up with when playing around with the Wiimote.