Looking to collect a little acceleration / braking data on the cheap? Even if you're just scouting alternative uses for that oh-so-handy
Wiimote, a recent project from klee just may suit your fancy. A proud owner of a 2000
Volkswagen Jetta managed to rig up a Wiimote-based tracking system that gathered information on g-forces, acceleration, turning, and overall speed, and thanks to a little Excel computation, the results are neatly graphed once the outing concludes. Of course, you may need a little help in the script writing department, by judging by the looks of things, most everything you need is awaiting you in the read link -- you know, except your own Wiimote and a
Vee-Dub.
[Thanks, Matt]
posted Jul 31st 2007 3:48PM
VWVORTEX FTW!!!!!
Now, they just need to take the HUD from Project Gotham Racing, and whenever you drift, start racking up the points.. Maybe once you get to your destination, if you haven't had an accident, you get a bonus for a clean race.. :-) Cool use for a Wiimote..
Real world gamer score ftw!
Me Me Me!
in the near future, cars will be driven by wiimotes, not steering wheels
i love recycled news!
its good to read the same stories everywhere, real fun! yah!
And you took the time to not only read the article again but also complain about reading it again.
anyone else catch the '13.37' timestamp for 0-60 in his Jetta?
13.37 for 0-60? That's movin' . . .
I would hope that ET is for a quarter-mile, and not 0-60. If not, you'd have to be going downhill, with the wind pushing you, in a hurricane to put that on the track!
I got this up and running last night, gave it a shot today, works pretty well. Right now I'm working on using the actual acceleration rather than the g value, because it rounds the g's to only two decimal places. Also, his original script just spews out readings into a .txt so I'm working on cleaning it up and finding an easier way to get the results into excel or maybe even a realtime display.
If you get some sweet updated software, I would be interested in it. Thanks in advance.
i used to use macbook pro's internal accelerometer for such purpose ..