Wii Nunchuck Arduino pan and tilt camera

I found this while looking for a teardown of a Wii Nunchuck remote since they’re cheap and include a 3 axis accelerometer. I mentioned an interface board the other day, but the responsiveness of the interface in this video grabbed my attention. If you like it, you should check out this [via] Nunchuck Arduino RF controlled robot. You can find details on that bot here. The accelerometer itself only runs about $10, but it’s a pretty small SMD part.

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11 Responses to Wii Nunchuck Arduino pan and tilt camera

John Berube says:

April 7, 2008 at 12:57 am

Nice, i love how well it responds. I’m gonna have to try this out.

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sarsface says:

April 7, 2008 at 1:02 am

this looks like it would be great for implementation on a full scale camera crane. I was thinking about building one after being seeing this http://tinyurl.com/2sj3hx and now i’m really inspired to think bigger.

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afbase says:

April 7, 2008 at 1:28 am

This is too cool. Now we need to program the buttons :-Ã

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Michael says:

April 7, 2008 at 9:44 am

This is what I was thinking when I saw the giant sword holding industrial robot. But it was only running motion scripts from gestures. This project is really what I was waiting for.

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Alexander says:

April 7, 2008 at 9:57 am

Now all I need to do is buy one of these little cameras and put it on my RC truck. Mmm… Nitro fumes.

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Crash says:

April 7, 2008 at 2:02 pm

Where the hell are all the cool mods for the sixaxis?

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VarunD says:

April 7, 2008 at 5:07 pm

Yea, crash has a good point, where are all the sixaxis controller hacks?

btw, awesome responsiveness! I cant get my head around the fact that it stops at the right moment even if it starts well.

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Jo says:

April 7, 2008 at 10:13 pm

SON OF A BITCH!
I just started a project exactly like this for my ECE362 class. Oh well. :( Here’s to not being first.

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kaelb says:

April 8, 2008 at 4:59 am

very nice. i wonder how responsive it would be when connected over the internet? you know, in case you wanted a home security system with a more “hands-on” approach.

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andrew says:

April 8, 2008 at 9:16 pm

hmm… the nunchuck doesn’t seem to be plugged in… (Unlikely. I doubt someone would try to choreograph that. =P)

or those ultrathin yellow wires connect it. (Probably)

Very cool, nonetheless.

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Andrea says:

April 12, 2008 at 1:08 pm

I’m the author of the video.
You can find the “how-to” here:

http://diydrones.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=705844%3ablogpost%3a31713

Thank you all for your comments.
Ciao,
Andrea