Wiimote, Robotics, and LabVIEW

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Today we have a cool application from one of our Application Engineers, Evan Dozier. To summarize, he found an old robotic arm with a broken controller and revamped it using NI Hardware, LabVIEW and the Wiimote controller from the Nintendo Wii.

The Wiimote is a fairly sophisticated piece of engineering itself (we hope to post more about it in the future). It uses Bluetooth to communicate data from several on-board accelerometers. This informs the software of the Wiimote's orientation and movement.

In this application, Evan uses the Wiimote and some special Bluetooth LabVIEW VIs to control the robot either with the buttons or with the accelerometers.

If you would like to try this yourself (and you have a spare Wiimote and robotic arm), go to the LabVIEW forums and download the VIs by clicking on the link.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• labview
• motion
• motioncontrol
• robot
• roboticarm
• wii
• wiimote
• nationalinstruments
• ni
• National Instruments

[izaatmusic]

look at those screen! which year was this?!

[skanaos]

awesome!