Firefighting Wiimote Robot

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.”

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Pingback on September 11th, 2007.

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Comment on December 20th, 2007.

why did u stutter when you spoke?

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