http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/ Engadget Comments for WiiBot cuts other Wiimote hacks down to size http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/Jan 25th 2007 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/Jan 25th 2007 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/Jan 25th 2007 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/Jan 25th 2007 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/Jan 25th 2007 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/
being as they said real time.. i bet it really does mimic the controller...

what i wonder is what happens after the arm runs out of range?]]>Jan 26th 2007 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/Jan 25th 2007 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/Jan 25th 2007 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/Jan 25th 2007 5:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/
Wow. I'm definitely loving the concept. The lag is, expected, but this is a great little 'forthcoming' as far as robotics goes. Granted, there could be systems like this that you can purchase and I wouldn't know- but this still seems very; very cool, simply by the fact that they hacked the WiiMote to do this.

Chris]]>Jan 25th 2007 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/
They make that auto-sentry-gun :-D]]>Jan 25th 2007 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/Jan 25th 2007 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/Jan 25th 2007 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/Jan 25th 2007 5:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/Jan 25th 2007 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/
hahah just kidding.

that's some pretty quick and pretty smooth articulation.

...bet that arm has a hefty pricetag. ]]>Jan 25th 2007 6:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/Jan 25th 2007 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/Jan 25th 2007 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/Jan 25th 2007 6:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/
It's a good step nonetheless. They should work on full non-preprogrammed control next. And faster response (the slow response is understandable) wouldn't be bad either.

Then after that they can improve the range of the wiimote. Then add a full body to the robot, mobilize it, with cameras. After that, it's all about world domination. Unless they want to add artificial intelligence in the robot :P]]>Jan 25th 2007 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/
having said all that, I applaud these people. without this kind of ... behavior, humans would still live in the stone age. bit by bit these people are building the future! good onya. ]]>Jan 25th 2007 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/Jan 25th 2007 8:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/
Second, if you look, its not like they stole the robot. It's a lab. Tinkering with a robot like that is part of their (and my) job. If I did that, I will tell you my boss would find it cool, as long as I didn't bill them for the time spent doing it.

As for your second comment... at my company, we typicaly fuse our robots at 30 amps @ 480 volts. That is a peak draw, when you're multiple servos on the robot, fast, while carrying a load. "Jacking up the companies power bill" is a bit of an overstatement.

Now... as for the people talking about variety of movement... not really. To say it outright for everyone, think the sword work in Twilight Princess. Same basic thing.

Industrial robots like this are basicaly set up to run a list of programs, and then have an external device/system/controller tell them what job to run, when. The interfacing and everything is already there, since it's what they're set up to do. However, giving free-form instructions as to position and orrientation is normaly done through the robot's own controller. For various reasons (safety being one of them), it's rather hard to get into that portion of it. You'd need to do a fair amount of custom coding, probably semi-special hardware as well. (Okay, this is a bit of a reach on my part - I've never seen a robot being given more than basic offsets by anything other than a Teach Pendant... and that has multiple safety circuits to emulate if you try to replace it...)]]>Jan 25th 2007 10:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/
and I applaud you, sir. without people like you, I would not have fresh fries or burgers when I order them.]]>Jan 27th 2007 10:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/Jan 25th 2007 7:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/"US Army to deploy wiimote-driven robots"?]]>Jan 25th 2007 8:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/"US Army to deploy wiimote-driven robots"?

You're not far off. Telepresence is highly desired by all the armed forces, both as a safety measure, and a force multiplier. With a little more tweaking, this could speed that process. Why code a multi-million dollar TeP rig from scratch when you can buy a dev kit for a $250 console and get what you need. Just code the TeP client for your Wiibots (The M-2009 "Mario", heh.) and distribute the disc to units. Changing mission? Simple as changing the disc. I'd love to be in that MOS.

These guys could get some mad DARPA money with this. ]]>Jan 25th 2007 11:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/Jan 25th 2007 9:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/Jan 25th 2007 10:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/
Robots (Fanuc's anyway) like this one have a variety of coordinate systems you can put them in, including one center on the end of the robot. There, you can give it transational (up, down, forword, sideways) movement and rotational movement commands. You tell the robot where to move the 'hand' and it figures out how to move all six joints to acomplish this. I've used all six axis of movement on the wiimote. It detects acceleration and rotation in all six axis. Exactly what the robot needs. ]]>Jan 25th 2007 10:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/i want to make a virtual wiimote with openGL, and for that i need the rotation matrix from the Wiimote. Can you please tell me, how can i compute the rotation matrix out of the Wiimote

Thanks,
dime vitanovski]]>Jun 7th 2007 5:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/Jan 25th 2007 10:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/
http://supercabra.com/images/contentimages/wiibot.jpg]]>Jan 25th 2007 11:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/Jan 26th 2007 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/Jan 26th 2007 3:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/Could this have been first death-by-Wii?]]>Jan 26th 2007 4:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/
I agree, they should all get fired for waisting their work's money on this garbage.]]>Jan 26th 2007 5:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/Jan 26th 2007 8:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/
http://www.wiiuser.org
]]>Jan 26th 2007 6:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/Jan 27th 2007 8:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/ Robots like these could mean that a lot of dangerous duties (patrolling f.x) could be done with these robots and still have a human controlling it and using it. Since nobody wants A.I. going around wiping people from the earth. Something along the goliath from StarCraft or those really similar [read: identical] things from matrix 3, is what most people have in mind.
Thus suffering less casualties. Not only would this mean less people fallng over to the "against [Insert war]" side but also more people would come back and support the military for their work. Also, who stands the best chance against a sniper? A soldier in uniform? Or a big lumbering robot thingy? They dont even need to be able to walk for most of the guard duties.
Now the point of this rant was basically: The military could actually earn quite a lot from making these robots, tho i can imagine that the price would be enormous. But the way things are going now, the only way to get the money you need for things is keeping people happy. People dont like their friends getting killed in some foreign war. ]]>Jan 28th 2007 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/Jan 29th 2007 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/
*Roger Smith Voice*]]>Jan 29th 2007 8:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/wiibot-cuts-other-wiimote-hacks-down-to-size/
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