RC Car Wiideo: Control an RC car with a Wiimote

Posted Dec 19, 2006 at 10:05AM EST by Karl B.

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Here's something fun to do with your Wiimotes. One of our readers, Rene, pointed us over to this video of his colleague demonstrating how a Wiimote can be used to control an RC car.

The video's uploader (listed as www.Schoeppl.Info) says in the video notes that the Wiimote's bluetooth signal is received by a notebook. The notebook then sends the signal via serial port to hardware (labeled RS232 near the start of the video) which generates a signal for the pupil connection to the original remote control.

To control the RC car, the Wiimote is held sideways with the directional buttons on the left. All you have to do is tilt the Wiimote forward to make the car move forward and vice versa. You can even control the RC car's speed depending on how far forward or backward you tilt the Wiimote. To make the car turn left or right, the Wiimote is titled to the left or right respectively.

Check out the video below for some motion-sensing, RC-controlling fun. Again, thanks to Rene for the heads up.

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# FAKE!! — Guest 2006-12-19 11:42

FAKE!!!!

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# imagine dropping the remote!!! — Guest 2006-12-19 12:06

wat if he dropped the ***** wii remote, the car would fly and take circles until it breaks as fast as a nintendo wii does.

real box of ***** insn't it!

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# Shut up — Guest 2006-12-19 12:42

Why have you come to the conclusion that it is fake? It wouldn't be that hard to do and it's obviously real.

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# That is SO — Guest 2006-12-19 12:54

TIGHT! And this is all still within a month of the release. I can't wait to see what kinds of cool ideas people will come out with in the future for the Wiimote. Perhaps hooking it up to a lawn mower and mowing your lawn from your porch, lol.

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# woah — Guest 2006-12-19 12:55

That RC car sounds like it has some MONDO power!

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# word — Guest 2006-12-19 13:00

idk its hard to believe i dont see how bluetooth would connect to a car which i believe would be absed on diff signals idk feels weird idk it hink tis fake but hey you never know some people are smart enough to do stuff liek that

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# hahaha — Guest 2006-12-19 14:04

Yeh would be like out of Toy Story (if you've seen it).



Hmmm could be fake, but i dont think so.....

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# Yeah — Guest 2006-12-19 20:48

Notice the dongle plugged into the controller?

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# read it — Guest 2006-12-20 05:26

read the post u fool

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# Fake.. — Guest 2006-12-21 12:11

Obviously fake, someone will be standing behind or to the side of the camera controlling the car properlly copying the directions guy with wii mote is doing. So obvious watch the delay between some of the movements, sometimes nothing happens for quite a while.

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