Does anyone know what the refresh rate of the accelerometer in the wiimote is? Is there a way to find out using Visual C#?
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Every 5.02 ms (~200Hz) according to this page (which has loads of great info on it, mostly in links to other articles).
Data from with tk.wii object is 8-bit data reported every 5.02 milliseconds on average (with a 4.90 median and 5.86 in one test). The data is represented as a 0.0-1.0 value the tilt of the controller occupying 21% of that range – tilt values for the X-and Y-axis range from 0.396 to 0.608 with sharp accelerations using the entire range.
It may depend not only upon the device's capabilities, but your connection to it.

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if my connection is the determining factor, how can I determine the refresh rate considering my connection in c#? – Omar Jun 22 '10 at 14:13
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1The don't make milliseconds the way they used to. Back in my days, you could get 200 Hz for a 5 ms interval. – Niki Jun 22 '10 at 14:14
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Haha! Er, maybe lunar milliseconds... thanks, will update the answer. – Drew Noakes Jun 22 '10 at 15:58
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1@Omar, can you count the number of updates you get per second? You can use `System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch` for decent precision timing. – Drew Noakes Jun 22 '10 at 15:59