With a high-resolution camera, a 3-axis accelerometer, and a Bluetooth wireless link, the Nintendo Wii Controller (Wiimote) offers exciting possibilities beyond use as a video game controller for the Nintendo Wii. One of National Instruments' Application Engineers, Evan Dozier, modified an existing robotic arm using NI Hardware, LabVIEW and the Wiimote controller from the Nintendo Wii. In this application, Anu Saha from National Instruments uses the Wiimote and some special Bluetooth LabVIEW VIs to control the robot either with the buttons or with the accelerometers.
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Amflyer commented on August 10, 2008
Yet again, the pros finally catch up with the hobbyists, a year later, for way more money, way to go! BTW the hi-res camera is IN the WII remote, It is capable of simultaneous tracking of four blobs (IR spectrum).
Amflyer commented on July 18, 2008
Hi everything is now seems to be good, one question that cannot we put the video analytice in this?
Amflyer commented on May 22, 2008
I saw this at the FIRST World Championships in Atlanta, and it was pretty awesome. The system syncs really easily and the Labview libraries and WindRiver WPI Libraries make it literally 7 commands/functions that need to be called. The NI FPGA platform with CRIO has a lot of capability
Amflyer commented on May 21, 2008
Can't wait to see this debut at AEE
Amflyer commented on May 21, 2008
Just a clarification: this particular robot arm is not equipped with a high-resolution camera. Although there are quite a few companies using the FPGA-based NI Smart Camera with LabVIEW to convert their robotic arms into vision-guided or vision-feedback based robots.
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Yet again, the pros finally catch up with the hobbyists, a year later, for way more money, way to go! BTW the hi-res camera is IN the WII remote, It is capable of simultaneous tracking of four blobs (IR spectrum).
Hi everything is now seems to be good, one question that cannot we put the video analytice in this?
I saw this at the FIRST World Championships in Atlanta, and it was pretty awesome. The system syncs really easily and the Labview libraries and WindRiver WPI Libraries make it literally 7 commands/functions that need to be called. The NI FPGA platform with CRIO has a lot of capability
Can't wait to see this debut at AEE
Just a clarification: this particular robot arm is not equipped with a high-resolution camera. Although there are quite a few companies using the FPGA-based NI Smart Camera with LabVIEW to convert their robotic arms into vision-guided or vision-feedback based robots.