Guy Lunardi just emailed me a link to a very clever hack from Johnny Chung Lee at CMU.
How to use the Wii remote to capture finger movement. A brilliant hack.
The Wiimote library is released under the MS-PL, and I think this requires a port to Linux. I have added this wish-item to the Google Highly Open Participation project for Mono.
Posted on 12 Dec 2007