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15 Tonne Grapples controlled by wiimote...

submitted by Spoon_Gouge
1 decade 5 years 4 months 2 weeks ago

15 tonnes of steel, 200 bar of hydraulic pressure and a control system written in Python. Oh, and a Wiimote.

3 Comments

siftbot

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Moving this video to Spoon_Gouge's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

theali

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How does the Wiimote work without the infrared receiver in front of it?

artician

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>> ^theali:
How does the Wiimote work without the infrared receiver in front of it?

The Wii remote only uses the infrared receiver for screen positioning, so the Wii knows where the Wii remote is pointing precisely. Otherwise the infrared receiver is useless. Aside from that the Wii remote has accelerometers within it, which communicate through blue-tooth, and this is what registers the Wii remotes' trajectory and motion in space. This latter technology is what this demo is using. Since there is no need to use the Wii remote as a pointing device here, they don't need the infrared at all. Only it's ability to detect motion and direction.