The Wii-Mote Controlled Lego Car
By Jonathan on Thursday, September 27th, 2007 at 10:52 AM PST In Gamer Life, Nintendo
A student from Carnegie Mellon University programmed a motorized Lego car so that it could be controlled by a Wii-mote and Nunchuk for an assignment in his Intro to Robotics class. The project was intended as a small-scale demonstration for possible use in Urban Search and Rescue programs:
“This robot is composed of Legos and uses a handyboard as the control hardware. It has 4 wheel drive each controlled by a lego motor, and a pan tilt mount for directing light and the video camera. The Wii Remote talks to a MacBook Pro over bluetooth to modified DarwiinRemote software, and the computer in turn communicates with the robot over a serial port.”
Part of this terrifies me. How long before some overzealous student uses this technology to construct a giant Wii-mote controlled capable of stomping out cities? Please don’t let our future turn into a Japanese anime. Unless it’s Ghost in the Shell; that would be kind of cool.
Via TechEBlog
I’m sure you could’ve done that using other methods…however, that was certainly very cool. Love to see that implemented for an F1 car!