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RoboWii

The Wii Remote, sometimes nicknamed "Wiimote", is the primary controller for Nintendo's Wii console. A main feature of the Wii Remote is its motion sensing capability, which allows the user to interact with and manipulate items on screen via movement and pointing through the use of accelerometer and optical sensor technology.

This is what we're going to do:

1- Wiimote is linked only by the bluetooth technology, so our first intention is to analyze some of existing software projects to understand how to get/send the information from/to its accelerometer and its infrared motion sensor and how this 2 technologies are correlated.

2- Write our own application to control the Wiimote and get from it its information.

3- Control a particular physical robot with the Wiimote we called "RoboWii".

On April 15th 2008, the working group decided to implement a robot application such as a Robogame. The robot has the Wii infrared bar onboard and can detect the position of the Wiimote held by the human player when in front of the bar. The player should get a position in front of the robot and hit a button on the Wiimote while pointing the Wiimote at the middle of the bar. The robot should move to avoid this. In this, it is helped by the information coming from the accelerometer on the Wiimote.

Partecipants to this project: Antonio Bianchi, Ben Chen

Advisor: Andrea Bonarini

The material we found is stored at wiili.org

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--Ben Chen 12:20, 9 April 2008 (CEST)