Wiimote Controls Lego Robot

Categories: PC Connect, Video, Wiimote Hack.

There is now a way to control your LEGO creations using your Nintendo Wiimote!

“OnBrick is a 20 button programmable NXT remote controller for PDAs & PCs, using Bluetooth. Each RC button executes a user defined program - so now you can play with your NXT robots while building them. Pretty useful for testing sensors too. There are 36 actions, most with a single parameter, including calibrated moves, wait for sensor events, simple sounds, individual motor control & power settings, loops… ”

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Wiimote controls the Rubens Tube

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If the Rubens Tube wasn’t interesting enough, have a look at what you can do when you through a Wiimote into the mix!


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100 Uses for the Wii

Categories: Insane, PC Connect, Wii Console Hack, Wii Info, Wiimote Hack.

Virtual Hosting has put together a HUGE list of 100 things you can do with the Wii. See the first 10 below, read the full article for the remaining 90 uses.

  • Homebrew: You can create games that are fit for playing through the Wii’s Internet Channel.
  • Wiicade: Play arcade games created for the Wii on this site.
  • Watch TV: Check out one of the many video sites online that showcases TV, and you’ve got a virtual on-demand TV program right in your system.
  • Stream Joost: Use this hack to stream Joost videos to your Wii.
  • Browse in full screen: Use this settings hack to enable full-screen viewing.
  • WiiTube: On WiiTube, you can watch videos made specifically for the Wii.
  • Play movies: Tweak your settings to watch home movies on the Wii.
  • Watch YouTube: Watch YouTube on a bigger screen with the Wii.
  • Create a Wii media server: Use this web media server to turn your Wii into a multimedia machine.
  • Stream iTunes: Check out this tutorial to learn how to stream your iTunes music library to the Wii.
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    Read Wii Nunchuck Data with an Arduino

    Categories: PC Connect, Video, Wiimote Hack.

    If you are interested in reading the raw Nunchuck data for a project, the code provided here can help you do that using an Arduino microcontroller.

    “With a little hacking, data can be read from a wii nunchuck directly into an Arduino, using TWI (aka I2C). The nunchuck contains a 3 axis accelerometer, joystick and buttons for only $19.95. The same accelerometer in kit form, cost $34.95 at Sparkfun. Plus the nunchuck is already wired up in a nice clean case! So the wii nunchuck should fit nicely into anyones robotic project.”

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    Wiimote Swing - Dance Text onto your Montor

    Categories: PC Connect, Video, Wiimote Hack.

    The Wiimote Swing by Erik Loyer is an interesting way to display text on your screen.

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    “Enter your text and hit the Home button on the remote. Then, hold the Wiimote sideways, with the D-pad on the left and facing upwards, and twist it back and forth like a steering wheel to advance through syllables. Roll the Wiimote towards you to make the text grow larger, and away from you to make it shrink. Up and Down on the D-pad (technically Left and Right, as you’re holding the Wiimote sideways) will step manually through syllables; the 2 button will cause the current text fragment to fade out.”

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    Interview with Johnny Lee

    Categories: PC Connect, Wiimote Hack.

    Johnny Lee has been featured here many times for all of his Wiimote hacks. If you want to learn more about him, have a look at this Interview with Johnny Lee over at Hacked Gadgets.

    AP: Your Wii projects have been taking the Web by storm! What attracted you to the Wiimote
    as your interaction device of choice?

    JL: Well, I was excited by the Wii Remote ever since the original press release about it’s capabilities was public. Ironically, I was an intern at Microsoft the summer before the Xbox 360 was launched. Several internal people, including me, were still trying to convince the Xbox group they should put an accelerometer into the controller. That, of course, didn’t happen. The Wii remote is one of the most sophisticated input devices available today and an amazing piece of engineering containing an accelerometer, camera, and wireless communication. Combined with the ease in which you can connect it to a computer made it an obvious choice for experimentation.


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    Wiimote Horse

    Categories: PC Connect, Video, Wiimote Hack.

    Here are the steps to use a horse to play a video game by using a wiimote to capture your actions.

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    “1. Buy, Beg, Borrow Steal a Spring Horse
    2. Install Blue tooth adapter HW & SW Drivers
    3. Sync WiiMote with PC
    4. Affix WiiMote to Horse (I used painter’s tape to Horse’s hind quarters (See 00:27 in video)
    5. Install GlovePie
    6. Load joystick script in GlovePie (included in GlovePie)
    7. Load Need for Speed (PC Game)
    8. Configure the controls in NFS by moving the Horse when assigning keys for:
    1. Accelerate
    2. Brake
    3. Left
    4. Right
    5. Change View (Optional)
    9. Hook up to Large Display (Optional but preferable)
    10. Move Furniture out of the way
    11. Start Game
    12. Lean forward, Elbows in, hands tightly gripping handle
    13. Have Fun”

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    3D Head Tracking using a Wiimote

    Categories: Insane, PC Connect, Video, Wiimote Hack.

    Wow, this is a cool use of the Wiimote! Leave it to Johnny Lee to keep dreaming up cool uses for it.

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    “Using the infrared camera in the Wii remote and a head mounted sensor bar (two IR LEDs), you can accurately track the location of your head and render view dependent images on the screen. This effectively transforms your display into a portal to a virtual environment. The display properly reacts to head and body movement as if it were a real window creating a realistic illusion of depth and space. By Johnny Chung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University.”

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    Cynergy Labs Project Maestro uses a Wiimote for Screen Control

    Categories: Insane, PC Connect, Video, Wiimote Hack.

    The guys over at Cynergy Labs built this system in about 8 days! It lets the user use their fingers to move items around.

    Video after the jump.

    “Project Maestro was produced by cynergy.labs, the R&D arm of Cynergy, a leading Rich Internet Applications design and development firm. cynergy.labs funds and sponsors Cynergy developers in building out cutting edge technologies that are relevant to the community and Cynergy’s customers.

    Maestro brings together Microsoft WPF, third party community libraries and custom built IR gloves to demonstrate next generation human to computer interfaces.”

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    Wii Play with Drums - Wiimote Drum Sampler

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    Wii Play with Drums is some cool software that lets you play the drums with your Wiimote!

    “What you will need to run it (assuming you have a windows XP pc):
    1. Wiimote
    2. bluetooth adapter
    3. The software
    And that’s pretty much it. You may also need .Net2.0, but most people should already have it.”

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