Wii Remote + 15 Tonnes Of Metal Arm
These two industrial grapplers don’t just have cute names (one of them is called “Bender”). They’ve got a cute control method as well, as they can be jiggled, jaggled and, yes, waggled by a Wii Remote.
These guys used a control system written in Python to replace the arm’s regular input (a joystick) with the Wii Remote’s internal sensors. So you don’t even need the IR pointer, they just respond to tilting.
Shame they didn’t go one step further and invent a few little industrial moving arm games to go with it.
Using a Wiimote to control a 15-ton metal arm [Go Nintendo]
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just think, you can play shot put with boulders.
Lachette
python rocks! Hack on! suck it PHP, oh wait... different blog.
I think a Giant robot suit would be a better control platform for these arms.
super_machine
@ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council.: well played my good sir, well played
I'd like to see a wiimotion+ version! :P
@Xander: Don't be silly they're only 15 tonnes!
On Demand, Comcast, Military channel. 360 controller to blow shit up, for reals.
I don't want to be anywhere near a giant mechanical arm controlled by the waggleriffic wiimote technology.
I now can get that car in the crane game!
Mr.DuckSauce
BUT can they lift the Xbox 360 power supply?
@ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council.: I see what you did there!
Can I Really Be the Hero?
This video is so freaking relaxing at 5 in the morning <:)
notquitedeadyet
@ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council.: That is one fun website :D
notquitedeadyet
This seems horribly horribly dangerous. And amazingly glorious fun.
Psudonym
Needs more m+, giant tennis racket (also made of metal) and wrecking ball.
sits
They need to do this with an excavator... now THAT would be some "shovelware".
www.hiyoooo.com
IT ALL MAKES SENSE!
Nintendo + Bandai = IRL GUNDAM!!
stalin23
Oh, Bender... And I just watched The Beast With A Billion Backs last night.
That's a very cool "mod" (it's technically a mod, isn't it?), and I can't wait until they implement it on wrecking-balls:
"Uh-oh, I think I just tore down the wrong building. Damn those misleading Wiimote ads - this thing ain't accurate at all!"
"Told ya we should have used MotionPlus."
Who says work can't be fun?
Seeing this makes me want to play Half-Life 2! That one bit, where you have to lift up those metal containers and toss them around a bit...good times!
When I read the title, I was kinda thinking that a sequel to Metal Arms was announced on the Wii.
No sequel to Metal Arms. :( That could have made me buy a Wii finally...
Bender and Fender?
I would have gone with Bender and Flexo personally.
i want to see them make those big grapples arm wrestle
D-TRON
Well theres always "UFO CATCHER - Irritating Boss's Car Version"