Wii Nunchuck Arduino pan and tilt camera

Posted Apr 6th 2008 11:08PM by Will O'Brien
Filed under: misc hacks

I found this while looking for a teardown of a Wii Nunchuck remote since they're cheap and include a 3 axis accelerometer. I mentioned an interface board the other day, but the responsiveness of the interface in this video grabbed my attention. If you like it, you should check out this [via] Nunchuck Arduino RF controlled robot. You can find details on that bot here. The accelerometer itself only runs about $10, but it's a pretty small SMD part.

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1. Nice, i love how well it responds. I'm gonna have to try this out.

Posted at 12:58AM on Apr 7th 2008 by John Berube

2. This is too cool. Now we need to program the buttons :-Þ

Posted at 9:34AM on Apr 7th 2008 by afbase

3. This is what I was thinking when I saw the giant sword holding industrial robot. But it was only running motion scripts from gestures. This project is really what I was waiting for.

Posted at 9:45AM on Apr 7th 2008 by Michael

4. Now all I need to do is buy one of these little cameras and put it on my RC truck. Mmm... Nitro fumes.

Posted at 9:58AM on Apr 7th 2008 by Alexander

5. Where the hell are all the cool mods for the sixaxis?

Posted at 2:06PM on Apr 7th 2008 by Crash

6. SON OF A BITCH!
I just started a project exactly like this for my ECE362 class. Oh well. :( Here's to not being first.

Posted at 10:14PM on Apr 7th 2008 by Jo

7. Yea, crash has a good point, where are all the sixaxis controller hacks?

btw, awesome responsiveness! I cant get my head around the fact that it stops at the right moment even if it starts well.

Posted at 4:12AM on Apr 8th 2008 by VarunD

8. very nice. i wonder how responsive it would be when connected over the internet? you know, in case you wanted a home security system with a more "hands-on" approach.

Posted at 5:00AM on Apr 8th 2008 by kaelb

9. this looks like it would be great for implementation on a full scale camera crane. I was thinking about building one after being seeing this http://tinyurl.com/2sj3hx and now i'm really inspired to think bigger.

Posted at 3:10PM on Apr 8th 2008 by sarsface

10. hmm... the nunchuck doesn't seem to be plugged in... (Unlikely. I doubt someone would try to choreograph that. =P)

or those ultrathin yellow wires connect it. (Probably)

Very cool, nonetheless.

Posted at 9:26PM on Apr 8th 2008 by andrew

11. I'm the author of the video.
You can find the "how-to" here:

http://diydrones.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=705844%3ablogpost%3a31713

Thank you all for your comments.
Ciao,
Andrea

Posted at 1:08PM on Apr 12th 2008 by Andrea

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