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Use The WIImote as a remote for the Boe-Bot

GhostintherobotGhostintherobot Posts: 16
edited 2007-07-30 14:33 in Robotics
idea.gif Hi i was wondering if it's posible to use the WIImote to control the Boe-Bot??idea.gif

If yes it will be to cool can someone work on it smilewinkgrin.gif if i was good in programing i would do it but i just start so... rolleyes.gif

THX roll.gif

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Sorry for my BASIC english ( It's not my native language)

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  • allanlane5allanlane5 Posts: 3,815
    edited 2007-07-30 14:33
    The Wiimote is blue-tooth based. There does exist a program which lets you use the Wiimote, along with a USB blue-tooth reciever, to send signals to a PC. The PC could then send signals over the RS-232 cable to the BOE-Bot.

    I don't know that the BOE-Bot can accept a blue-tooth module, and even if it does I suspect that would make the BOE-Bot a 'slave' as the wiimote is a 'slave', and you might need the PC in the middle anyway.

    This WOULD require a PC-based program, written in VB or C++ or .NET or Perl or whatever.

    Somebody else will have to comment on how hard it would be to get a Blue-tooth transciever on the BOE-Bot to 'listen' to the wiimote directly.
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