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Maker Workshop - Personal Flight Recorder on Make: televisio

John Park hacks a Wii controller and turns it into a personal flight recorder that can sense and measure the stomach-churning G forces of roller coasters and other high-speed, high-risk activities.  
 
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pshapiro (2 months ago) Show Hide
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this is a fascinating video. thanks!
HUNTERTMAXX (4 weeks ago) Show Hide
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no the board he used was a Arduino Duemilanove
matt09ad (2 months ago) Show Hide
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what kind of bored is that is it the "Arduino Mega AVR ATmega1280 USB board"
Jokkocze (2 months ago) Show Hide
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I dont see the meaning of having a small display on it on a rollercoaster, it's not like you're gonna sit and look at it all the time. I'd personally go with a memory of some kind, so I can look at it later.

Also, if I'd used a nunchuck, I would've taken the casing of it, and then I'd mount it inside the yellow case.
eugyathin (5 months ago) Show Hide
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you can buy a tri axis accelerometer from parallax. I they might have it in makershed as well. so you can lose the wii remote.
aspiringrockstar (5 months ago) Show Hide
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It looks so much like a bomb.
weldmaster80 (5 months ago) Show Hide
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not really bombs are made to NOT call atention to them-self so I bright yellow box is a poor choise.
fun4me23 (5 months ago) Show Hide
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try taking that on a plane
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im not gowing to rewen a wee

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