Man uses Wiimote to control robotic joystick

Posted Apr 19th 2007 2:25PM by David Hinkle
Filed under: Tech stuff, Video, Homebrew

People are using that Wiimote to control all kinds of things. We've seen it hooked up to the PC for acceleration measurement, we've also seen it show us how Rez could be made even better and we've seen it control robots that could very well crush our skulls. This time, we've got a video of the Wiimote being used to control a robotic joystick. Well, that's what it looks like is meant to fit in the moving plastic piece ...

Check past the break for the embedded video.

[Via Go Nintendo]

Tags: nintendo, nintendowii, video, wii, wiimote

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