[wiimote-762302.jpg] FireTracker_0.zip (1185Bytes) The wiimote is a really cool controller to use with your robots. It has many buttons, accelerometers and even a camera which tells the coordinates of the four principal IR emitters that it sees. There are many examples of appl…

this is awesome! this is awesome!

This is just the beginning ;D This is just the beginning ;D

I’ve been thinking about I’ve been thinking about buying a wiimote from dealextreme.com as they are pretty cheap. I miss using them for powerpoint presentations using GlovePIE.

RobotFreak made a good RobotFreak made a good tutorial about using the camera as a standalone sensor and used it to make a firefighting robot. So I guess that it is not very hard. But I don’t want to destroy my wiimote for now, thats why I’m using it this way. I think I’ll try y…

I’ve tried the I’ve tried the application IR Sensor Test and it works well, at least it detects my lighter. Next thing I want to do is to modify that code to send data to my robot and make it capable of finding candles. I will post the result here or in my robot’s page.

I like it! I am testing the Wii nunchuck, but i must say that the wiimote is really cool! wireless with a good skin. I used it at school, it is not very hard to obtain great results! I am improving my robot ( https://www.robotshop.com/letsmakerobots/node/23509 ) and I am still hav…

I got them when I I got them when I participated in a event organizated by the University of Minho called RoboParty, two years ago, where I built this robot . The motors are from MODELCRAFT and their specifications are: Operating voltage: 12V/DC Speed under load: 174rpm Max. gea…

thank you for your quick thank you for your quick answer! but 55€ is a bit too expensive for me, and I will need 2 H-bridge too. Maybe I will try to adapt 2 motors from drills… still searching! ^^

You’re welcome! Yes, I know, I think I’ll never buy things from that shop. That’s what I’m planning to do, too. I’m waiting for this board to arrive to control the two drills motors from my tank . The drills where 30€, the board 6€ and the components about 18€ (shipping not incl…

Using a wiimote with processing to control your robots

Let's Make Robots Tutorials

ro_bot_x December 5, 2010, 7:11pm 4

Nice! I see this as a good

Nice! I see this as a good way to do home navigation. How? Install 4 IR LEDs on the ceiling and have the IR camera on the robot looking at the ceiling. Camera being I2C, I suppose it is easy to interface with any microcontroller. Care to try that?