"Hi Nathan, the standard Wiimote only contains a triple axis accelerometer (MMA7260Q) and no gyros. I am not sure on the motion+. Checkout the link from sparkfun showing its internals."
"Im based in the UK and until the last couple of months I could get free samples of most parts very quickly. As this is not currently available I purchase them from Microchip direct and find they arrive quickly, there is also RS and Farnell who stock…"
"Its hard to compare Aduino to Microhip, comparing AVR's to PICs and the PIC is far easier to get started in IMHO. I started in assembly and bought a cheap kit to start programming. Much easier than I have found AVRs to be. All the PIC tools I use…"
"Its good to see more and more opensource projects like this. It seems quite similar to the mikrokopters ESCs, these are AVR based using I2C as the control protocol and the source code is available. The microchip website has a good application note…"