Coach Thrasher

WiiBot

Two engineers made a weekend project out of interfacing a Wii controller to 6 degree of freedom industrial robot. The results are Totally Awesome.

It appears that they've pre-programmed the robot's move sequences such that there's a "set" of possible arm movements. This is good because it makes the robot more predictable: if you drop the Wii controller, the sword doesn't cut you in half.

Projects like this make me wish I was still a mechanical engineer.

Posted at 11:39AM Feb 04, 2007 by jason in Hardware  |