wii controller

[Mike Copioli]

QUOTE=meatmanek;582808] I think any team which can manage to get a wiimote hooked to an OI, and have it control the robot intelligently should not be penalized. Instead, they should be given an award.[/quote]

Yes, I agree. The Chicklet supports a wireless gamepad. We use the wireless for debugging and testing. It is great, you never have to get up from your computer to "man" the controls, you can walk behind the robot to get different perspectives. They operate at 2.4 GHZ and should not cause any interferance with the radios. We are not using it because we are not certain about the rule.

[Grant Cox]

I actually was wondering if someone would be able to make that work. Using the GlovePIE scripts available online, it's more than plausible that you could rig something so that wii_accelerometer_up = globemotor_forward.

Come on FIRST, loosen those wireless controller restrictions

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by GeeForce

I actually was wondering if someone would be able to make that work. Using the GlovePIE scripts available online, it's more than plausible that you could rig something so that wii_accelerometer_up = globemotor_forward.

Come on FIRST, loosen those wireless controller restrictions

We had something like this running.

GlovePIE would rip all of the WiiMote Datas (yes, datas) off of the controller and export it to a virtual parallel port joystick.

Then we had a python script that would read the button and analog axis values from the virtual joystick, bundle it up, and shoot it over serial. On the RC side, we had software running to rip the Wiimote datas out and map them to motors and such.

Getting this to work with the OI would be super cool though.