You can do a lot in 7 hours — fly coast-to-coast, slow-cook a pot roast, emanate a Google Maps-navigating, Wii Fit-controlled practical Segway. Wait, what? Yes, which Nintendo-branded, dust-collecting vestige of holidays past has been since a latest franchise upon hold up interjection to an courageous couple of Ivy-educated geeks, as well as a seven-hour hackathon. The marathon modding session, hold by Stanford University’s SVI Hackspace, glued together together a like-minded set of overachieving modders to furnish a change board-guided Street View frisk by Google Maps. The students’ penetrate connects a Wii Fit house to OS X around a Osculator app, with a Node.js server estimate a interpretation as well as Socket.io doing board-to-browser communication. A Google Earth plug-in as well as pre-rendered Segway were all which was left to finish this foot-mapped happiness float by a digitized world. Video demo awaits we after a break.
