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Re: paper: Control an FRC bot with a Wiimote

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Originally Posted by cjtenny View Post
Well, I2C is a standard protocol. I actually have a nunchuk sitting in my room for use on another non-FIRST robot... haven't gotten around to it, though.
Do you have a hyperlink for using a Nunchuk via I2C? I am doing a bit of Googling but only turning up people working on it, not anyone who seems to have an implementable solution. I found a site showing you how to make a Wiimote add-on, but nothing explaining how to use a wiimote add-on on its own.

I'm not very familiar with microprocessor communication protocols other than serial, so I am very excited to find out more about this. Using a nunchuk on its own would be really cool.

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Originally Posted by Tim Arnold
Every time that using the Wiimote has come up, I have laughed it off and said it was nearly impossible and incredibly impractical to do.
Thanks Tim. This implementation still isn't competition legal, and it's very impractical, but it is a step towards possible. This "nunchuks use I2C" business could result in competition legal use of the Nunchuks, which would be awesome. Alternatively, I suspect Nunchuks are possible to circuit-hijack. I'll take one apart at some point and look, but I lost my tri-head screwdriver
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