More Wiimote-robot arm hijinks (with the world's largest Sensor Bar)

Posted Apr 15, 2007 at 4:59PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Wii Tags: gaming accessories, Linux, Wiimote, YouTube

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If Ellen Ripley controlled her iconic exosuit-forklift in "Aliens" with a Wiimote (okay, maybe she should have just thrown the Wiimote at the Queen for even more massive damage, but anyway...). Seems like Wiimotes are more and more being used in applications that do not involve the use of the Wii console. Engineering and programming students everywhere keep coming up with new demonstrations of controlling various robots with Wiimotes.

Like this relatively recent one from YouTube user noripcord7. His Wiimote is controlling a MiniMover 5 robot arm as part of his team's electromechanical design class in the Univ. of Michigan. Rather than use a reworked GlovePIE like the other robot arm (because in class, that would be cheatish), this one uses a Linux program written up in Python and their "world's largest sensor bar."

Okay, if one day we report on an acute Wiimote shortage (as opposed to a Wii shortage), you should know by now where they've all gone. Now, if only we had an Alien's neck to crush...

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# Cool — Guest 2007-04-15 18:31

YES! If you could plop that arm next to the fridge you can have it toss you a soda! You would never have to get up ever again!



In all seriousness... This is Neato.

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# I've used a bigger sensor bar.. — Guest 2007-04-15 19:42

it was1,392,000km across and 149,600,000km away.

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# toss a soda ha — Guest 2007-04-16 10:31

yeh it could toss you a soda after about half an hour, bloody slow

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