Posts Tagged ‘Wiimote’

Wiilson: Wii-Skybot extreme (Skybot + Wii + PWM)

A couple of days ago I mentioned this in the post about extending libStargate for a class assignment we had. The team was formed by Miguel, Gonzalo and myself, and we received a pretty good grade, by the way. I wanted to write again after having some patches sent to the main author of libStargate [...]

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Skybot, take two: extending libStargate

In a previous post I mentioned that we would be playing around with a bot project to interface our Skypic board and the Wiimote as an assignment in class. Hacking these things has been fairly easy thanks to some pretty handy pieces of software we stumbled upon at IeaRobotics and a bit of Python magic. [...]

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More on the wonders of Wii

Following up a post about the Wiimote, here is something interesting I stumbled upon. It’s also about cheap 3 axis accelerometers, only this time it isn’t about the Wiimote. It is about the Wii Nunchuk. Check this out! You can see the whole story at Hackaday. Although I’m not really used to hacking with circuits, [...]

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Robotics 101 and the Wiimote experience

I’ve never done anything bot-related and just couldn’t let it stay that way. A couple of friends and I (Hi there Miguel and Gonzalo!) have put together this simple bot and will be playing with it to discover the wonders of the Wiimote shortly. It uses a Skypic board as brains and a Sky293 board [...]

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