Playing Robot Football using the Wii Remote

[bergere]

Hi guys,

I just want to show you what YOU helped me to develop.

1.Step: Take a small Bioloid "Walking Droid".
2.Step: Integrate a Zig-Bee Module
3.Step: Set the Zig-Bee Module to Broadcasting Mode
4.Step: Set the Zig-Bee Receiver to Broadcasting Mode
5.Step: Send the commands from a Wii Remote to the PC
6.Step: Send the commands from PC to the Robot via Zig
7.Step: Interpret incoming Data in promiscuous Mode.
8.Step: Example "1" received. Robot 2 is walking backward.

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If you are interested in more Informations and some Source Code (coming soon) you can visit http://vr.tu-freiberg.de/bioloid/

THX for your Help

[BillB]

Nice.

Out of interest - do you use the wiimote accelerometers for control - or just the buttons?

[bergere]

Nice.

Out of interest - do you use the wiimote accelerometers for control - or just the buttons?

For another virtual Game we use the wiimote accelerometers, too. But in this project we just use the Buttons. Because our goal is to create a WebApplication which is able to Control the Robots from at home.
Therefore just a keyboard should be necessary.

[limor]

Great video!
this is a sure way to engage kids that are already excited just to hold a wee controller or even better - two wee controllers.

Have you considered connecting a bluetooth serial interface such as bluesmirf directly to the CM5?

[bergere]

Have you considered connecting a bluetooth serial interface such as bluesmirf directly to the CM5?

I found 2 possibilities:
- BlueTooth Hack (I think this is BlueSmirf?)
- Zig Bee Modules

First you have to know that I´m just a student, which get the robots from his professor. So we (he) decided to take possibility two, because we don´t want to slit the cm-5 case.

So some question to you. What are the pros and cons of Zig and this BlueSmirf?

[limor]

Have you considered connecting a bluetooth serial interface such as bluesmirf directly to the CM5?

I found 2 possibilities:
- BlueTooth Hack (I think this is BlueSmirf?)
- Zig Bee Modules

First you have to know that I´m just a student, which get the robots from his professor. So we (he) decided to take possibility two, because we don´t want to slit the cm-5 case.

So some question to you. What are the pros and cons of Zig and this BlueSmirf?

BlueSmirf because then you don't need the PC. but you have to reprogram the CM5 to interpret the wee protocol and activate the motions..

[bergere]

BlueSmirf because then you don't need the PC. but you have to reprogram the CM5 to interpret the wee protocol and activate the motions..

I don´t think that it is possible to run the bluetooth wii remote receiver software on a cm-5. Thread based C++ Programming on a CM-5. Or is this possible?

[BillB]

limor wrote:

Have you considered connecting a bluetooth serial interface such as bluesmirf directly to the CM5?

Judging by the thread below it would not be possible - not with a Sparkfun at least.

http://forum.sparkfun.com/viewtopic.php?t=11311&sid=c0d31b71fe3d0b4cd3c85fe12c30364b