So…
My wife and I just got the RingFit Adventure
And I am not sure it is even possible as I know wireless communication is prohibited at events (to say nothing of Nintendo’s history of proprietary hardware or the fact that even if it worked it, could be ineffective), but I could not help but think the ringFit or something like it has the potential to make a neat driver control. Just throwing the idea out there if anyone has a lot of time on their hands, is intrigued, and wants project.
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Make it a mandatory human player interface that controls part of the field.
Bonus points in endgame for most calories burned.
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Unfortunately, it is very illegal.
I am aware of the wIreless constraints. My hope is to do something wired, but probably not as good. My fascination syems from the fact that the rongxon is actually incredibly accurate. So, making something like that that is wired may not be.
For at-home use, it could be simple as joycons can connect to Windows out of the box. But yes, no BT.
In theory, the wireless communication rules shouldn’t be in play in 2021 since there’s no other teams to interfere with. Not saying everyone should start REing it right now, but…
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I believe in 2016, team 971 used a steering wheel to drive the robot. I don’t know if that was a 1 time thing or is something they always do. That being said, the steering wheel won’t have a gyro and have the ability to push and pull on it the same way.
Something similar has already been done in FRC 
it’s wireless, requires human motion, and was used to help control the robot during autonomous.
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Alternative idea: Make them an endgame game piece and have robots control other robots.
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