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Wii Remote Controlled Robot

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. This robot was designed for and used in a small scale demonstration of Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) as an assignment in Intro to Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. Designed, built, and programmed by Andrew Hundt, Boris Lipchin, and Ned Fox at CMU.

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25 Responses to “Wii Remote Controlled Robot”

  1. masteranimation2008 Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 3:02 pm

    Awsome, let’s see playstation move try to do that, obviously not since the move doesn’t have a nunchuk :P

  2. fishden2 Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 3:29 pm

    i want to learn how to do things like this but i will probably end up destorys every electronic device in my house XD

  3. gorandmisic Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 4:23 pm

    … but, You before me! Good job!

  4. gorandmisic Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 4:39 pm

    You use LEGO, I use Sony… :-)

  5. Shakespeare1612 Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 5:10 pm

    COOL! Is there anything the Wiimote can’t do?

  6. TheLordGarkas Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 5:23 pm

    wow! amazing!

  7. schmidtbag Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 6:03 pm

    very impressive

  8. misaelfaust86 Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 6:26 pm

    wow, dude you’re a genius

  9. frogvillage Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 6:30 pm

    did you use c lang?

  10. izzatnasrun Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 7:09 pm

    slow connection… always need to repeat…*yawn*

  11. WindUpVideos Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 7:35 pm

    sweet make it wireless ^_^

  12. h3nr13tt3 Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 8:01 pm

    i can’t say anything more than…

    SICK DUDE YOU ROCK!

  13. supergeek46 Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 8:15 pm

    of cource not!

  14. supergeek46 Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 8:35 pm

    cool

  15. nfox513 Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 8:41 pm

    ….no.

  16. sm113y Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 9:04 pm

    fake?

  17. Scottthebot Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 9:34 pm

    That’s rad!

  18. souliscool101 Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 10:11 pm

    AWSOME
    AWSOME IT IS

  19. frogger3d Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 10:43 pm

    Very cool! How did you implement pan+tilt+left wheels+right wheels=4 motors? I thought that the rcx has only 3 outputs…

  20. igutekunst Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 11:41 pm

    Check out my channel. I have a completely wireless robot, however, it does not use a Wii Remote. I am negotiating with Cypress Semiconductors about acquiring a bluetooth module. I hope to make it balance next.

  21. WolfFang54 Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 11:57 pm

    what if someone steps on it. thats alot if scattered legos.

  22. lordofdoosh Says:
    September 3rd, 2010 at 12:12 am

    holy shit, your good! That is one crazy setup!

  23. RurouniKenshinXz Says:
    September 3rd, 2010 at 1:01 am

    Rofl, an ingenius invention. Well done XD

  24. jeagle101 Says:
    September 3rd, 2010 at 1:12 am

    I own 1 X3

  25. srk4044 Says:
    September 3rd, 2010 at 1:25 am

    Cool, but seems like a lot of work to use the Wiimote. Seems like a 360 or PS3 controller would be easier to use.

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