Wiimote + RC car = authentic Excite Truck

Sure, controlling your cursor with a Wiimote is certainly novel, and inflicting damage upon your aging television set is soothing in a dark, twisted sort of way, but driving a remote-controller vehicle around the yard with your Wii controller really puts Excite Truck to shame. Joining the growing list of "things a Wiimote can do," the device can now control the forward, reverse, left, and right controls of a remote controlled vehicle sans wires -- well, aside from the presumably complicated computer rig off the side, that is. Apparently, the Bluetooth module within the Wiimote conveys its signals to a laptop, which then passes the movements via a serial port to the actual remote, which in turn beams up the vehicle with instructions. So if you're tired of seeing just how much fun folks who aren't getting knocked around by their Wiimotes are having, take a peek behind the plastic and get your own hack on after hitting the read link for some video action.

[Thanks, Kevin]

[Naris @ Dec 21st 2006 7:42AM]

I'm still waiting for someone to make a hack to have the Wiimote control a robot assassin.

[some person @ Dec 21st 2006 9:09PM]

well the only thing you could control is the sword motions

[bradders @ Dec 21st 2006 7:43AM]

Just what the Wiimote needs: more ways to inflict damage :)

[rpgSE.com @ Dec 21st 2006 7:58AM]

I hope they can do something with model planes!

[Wonderboy @ Dec 21st 2006 9:11AM]

While mildly impressed, I'm not nearly as impressed as I was at first when I thought they'd hacked the RC receiver to accept the Wiimote signals.

Actually now that I think about it, I bet there would be a decent market for a commercial "Wiimote Signal Converter".

[MichaelLC @ Dec 21st 2006 9:58AM]

Don't RC cars already come with remotes? E.g., Remote Controled cars?? Aside from the "because we can" philosiphy, I don't see how this is better than the original.

Show me the Wiimote controlling a real car, ala MythBusters, then I'll be impressed.

[mitch @ Dec 21st 2006 10:14AM]

It's seems better because instead of moving two joysticks back and forth, you can move a physical object and see it translated through a car, the whole philosophy behind the wiimote.

[drumr @ Dec 24th 2006 5:36PM]

It looks like he's using the laptop t convert it into a signal the 2-stick remote can accept for a buddy box, nice idea

and that aint a piece of crap rc car, that's a hobby class rc car, upgraded too, very quick

not some crappy toy class rc car looks like that rc car can reach goo 15-25 mph according to the acceleration

300 dollars for that rc car/ remote combo not including wiimote... he kows what he's doing lol

[Lee @ Jun 13th 2007 12:38PM]

Ya, I couldn't agree more. That takes a lot of skill to convert something like that into a wii remote. This rc car is pretty crazy and I just have to say congrats on making it - very skilled and talent person to pull off something like this. I wonder what it's like to drive an RC car with a Wii remote lol

http://www.everything-rc-cars.com

[Mando @ Dec 21st 2006 5:38PM]

Hey I sent the link to the website in!

[marshall @ Dec 21st 2006 10:58PM]

cool!!!!!!!!!!


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[marshall @ Dec 21st 2006 10:59PM]

hope i can get one of this!!!

http://myagloconetwork.blogspot.com/