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Categories: PC Connect, Video, Wiimote Hack.
This robot is connected to a computer and the Wiimote is used to drive it around, the robot mounted camera is used to see that the robot is looking at.
Video after the jump.
“This robot is composed of Legos and uses a handyboard as the control hardware. It has 4 wheel drive each controlled by a lego motor, and a pan tilt mount for directing light and the video camera. The Wii Remote talks to a MacBook Pro over bluetooth to modified DarwiinRemote software, and the computer in turn communicates with the robot over a serial port. This robot was designed for and used in a small scale demonstration of Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) as an assignment in Intro to Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. Designed, built, and programmed by Andrew Hundt, Boris Lipchin, and Ned Fox at CMU.”
Categories: PC Connect, Video, Wiimote Hack.
Looks like this Wiimote project connects a Wiimote to a computer system to play music samples. I think kids would get a kick out of this.
Categories: Video, Wiimote Hack.
Who says the Nintendo Wii Remote is all fun and games? It can now be used to detect and extinguish fires!
Video after the jump.
“It has IR sensors which can detect a candle and a bluetooth transciever to communicate back to a host computer. I use a boebot as the robot platform, an arduino, wiimote and a Linux computer.
The wiimote uses its IR sensor to find the candle. It transmits the sensor readings back to the host computer over bluetooth ( see my earlier post for details). A C program running on the host computer reads the sensor data and sends commands back over bluetooth to the wiimote. The wiimote relays those commands to an arduino board over the wiimote’s expansion port. The expansion ports uses the I2C protocol. The arduino then controls the servos (the boebot uses servos modified for continuous rotation) and fan. The fan is controlled by a ULN8023 chip.”
Categories: Wiimote Hack.
What is better than having a huge music collection on your computer? A music collection that can be accessed via you Wiimote!
“BlueTunes is a program that will allow you to use the Nintendo remote (Wiimote) as a remote control for your computer music library (Windows only). Using bluetooth technology, the Wiimote will allow you to control your iTunes collection from 50 feet away. Walls and floors pose no problem at all. Even the Wiimote’s motion sensing is utilized - shake the Wiimote to the right and the next track is played. Best of all, the BlueTunes software is completely free. You will need to purchase a Wiimote if you don’t already have one (a Nintendo Wii is not needed) and a bluetooth transceiver (if your computer isn’t already bluetooth enabled).”
Categories: PC Connect, Wiimote Hack.
No need for expensive acceleration monitoring hardware when you can simply strap a Wiimote in for the ride.
“I got this idea after seeing some physics class use the wiimote in some kinda pendulum experiment.
Why not use the wiimote’s built in 3-axis accelerometers to measue g-forces, acceleration and even calculate my own 0-60mph times!
So I did. I wrote a script to dump all the g-force readings from the wiimote to a comma separated value file, then did some post processing in MS Excel, and voila, I can see every bump, every curve, my acceleration and braking, and even calculated my current speed using high school physics (v=a*t)
I even convinced my coworker to take me out in his E46 M3 to measure his SMG’s performance
I admit, it’s not super accurate since the wiimote spits out G readings rounded to two decimal places. It also provides other acceleration readings in finer granularity, but I couldn’t figure out what metric it was recording in. I used Gs since I knew it was just the acceleration of gravity (9.8 m/s/s).”
Categories: Video, Wiimote Hack.
Here is a hack to add an LED to your Wiimote, it isn’t in English but it is quite easy to follow the video to see what is going on. If someone wants to leave a bit of translation in the comments it would be greatly appreciated.
Video after the jump
Categories: Video, Wiimote Hack.
No details, but this Wiimote LED Rumble Mod looks quite good. It could be as simple as connecting an LED accross the power that goes to the rumble motor.
Categories: PC Connect, Video, Wiimote Hack.
Here is a Wiimote that has been rigged up to control a telescope. The Wiimote seems to be such a natural hand control I could see this type of interface finding its way into many products.
Video after the jump.
“Kingjamez wanted a simple way to control his telescope. A Wiimote and some software ended up being the perfect solution for his automated telescope project. At the Howard Astro League star party last night, I was showing off the moon to kids through a video camera. I wanted to pan around the moon to show the kids different parts of the surface. Since I was using EQMOD with no joystick I had to use the directional pads on the laptop. It was very cumbersome.”
Categories: PC Connect, Video, Wiimote Hack.
Have some home made sensor bar fun with a potato bag clip and some various electronics.
Video after the jump.
“Materials needed:
1. Plastic potato chip bag clip.
2. 3 High Output IR LED’s from RatShack. Part # 276-143 1.6V or this IR LED
forward voltage.
3. Electrical tape/and or/solder and soldering iron.
4. USB cable (unused/extra/old – will require damaging)
5. Cutco or other sharp knife for drilling plastic.
6. Super glue.
7. Small set of semi-needle nose pliers.
8. Flathead screwdriver”
Categories: Wiimote Hack.
The Wiimote works well as a pointing device but if you are playing a game where you are shooting things on the screen this shotgun attachment might be worth buying.
“If you want your Wii shooters to be even more realistic, perhaps you’d enjoy this Wii Blaster. Scheduled for release on June 26 by a company called Core Gamer, the Blaster houses the Wiimote in a casing shaped like a shotgun.”
