Student creates robot controlled by Wiimote
by David Hinkle 
{ Apr 16th 2007 at 3:25PM }
We can picture it now. A bleak, cloudless sky that shelters the approaching robotic horde, set to lay waste to our last living city. All controlled by one madman, who's only wish is to eradicate humankind holds in him a fiery rage and his hand one sleek Wiimote. Raising it high to the heavens, his scream is strong enough to further crush the rubble at his feet as he syncs the Wiimote to his army. As he is ready to go, he is forced to wait the 2-3 seconds it takes for the Wiimote to sync up with the robots.
Well, maybe the Wiimote fantasies we concoct on our break asleep at the keyboard aren't exactly the best, but we still fear ambitious projects such as that of these college folk who, for their Electromechanical design class at the University of Michigan's Mechanical Engineering department, designed the Wiimote-controlled robotic arm. We've presented the video of this integration between the two in motion embedded into the post past the break.
[Via Engadget]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
HTML_Earth @ Apr 16th 2007 4:19PM
a little bit to slow..
hvnlysoldr @ Apr 16th 2007 4:33PM
The samurai sword wielding robot would like a word. Although that was built upon an existing car builder and only used accelerometers and not 3D pointing with a sensor bar.
Billy_McBong @ Apr 16th 2007 5:02PM
his computer appears to be running linux see what all you window noobs are missing out on(shhh no one tell the noobs that not all people that use linux have robots controlled by Wiimotes)
and that robot kicks ass