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Bow down to the WiiBot

2007-02-04, 2:12 PM #1

Phantom-Seraph

Of the Opera!

Posts: 2,196

This seems like the kind of thing Kyle90 would do. :psyduck:

http://www.usmechatronics.com/usmgarage/WiiBot.html

If that link doesn't work. Try this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qEotHQgUsg

My blawgh.

2007-02-04, 2:21 PM #2

Gebohq

ISB Kingpin

Posts: 8,352

Awesome!

I think of Megas XLR now... just imagine if a Wii remote had been among the number of controls available. Then again, Megas was more about old-school anyway...

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2007-02-04, 3:10 PM #3

Warlockmish

Registered Thread Abuser

Posts: 2,180

Dude thats sweet.

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2007-02-04, 3:27 PM #4

kyle90

Laser Lover

Posts: 8,450

What they really need to do is have it do real-time position calculations instead of just recognizing the gestures and repeating them. It currently has too much lag time to really be useful. Yes I realize that translating the position of the wiimote into angles for servomotors would be a very tricky programming problem.

And then when that's done, they should combine it with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncDUYWBlB50

Stuff

2007-02-04, 3:56 PM #5

Warlockmish

Registered Thread Abuser

Posts: 2,180

Mechatronics FTW!

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2007-02-04, 5:25 PM #6

Rob

Bah, HUMBUG!

Posts: 13,278

Originally posted by kyle90:

I would so ride that thing.

2007-02-04, 5:39 PM #7

RingMaster481

Leet Dancert

Posts: 1,331

Yeah, saw this on hackaday a bit ago. Aaron from USM offered me a job last summer but didn't know I was in highschool.