Wiimote Hacked to Analize Tennis Serves

July 7, 2009 ·Filed Under Technology News

 

If you are looking for a compact, rugged, and cheap sensor filled package there is nothing better than a Wiimote. that Wiimote was Hacked to Analize Tennis Serves. It’s great that there is an abundance of creative society working to invent interfacing to devices like the Wiimote a bit simpler than it could be whether everyone was starting from scratch.

Via: Hack a Wii

"So whether you are a real nerd or a high school physics teacher and you want

to try that you will need:
 

  • A wiiremote
  • A laptop with bluetooth
  • C# or Visual basic from MSFT
  • Johnny Lee’s Wiimote libraries http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/ (you will need to modify a few lines of cipher to write the accelerometer documents to a text file)
  • A tennis ball wrapped in aluminum
  • Bandage tape to tape the wiimote to your arm
  • Thin speaker wire
  • Graphing software"

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