Comments on: 15 ton robotic arm + WiiMote

By: F7

F7 — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:38:19 +0000

dijum, wouldn’t the motion of the arm play havoc with your controls?

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:52:10 +0000

I wonder how much power that thing uses, the arm I mean.

By: nubie

nubie — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:40:58 +0000

Why do I want to see these stalking a member of the Chemical Brothers in a music video?

I love how they are parked on the ground, for safety.

Now, to connect them to GlaDOS (XKCD needs to pick this up for a comic.)

By: sunjester

sunjester — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:54:43 +0000

yea I’m sure that’s what hes paid to do. get to work boy and stop playing with yourself.

By: charliex

charliex — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:17:00 +0000

Is this going to be the next version of the redneck theme park ride ? (Old one being the industrial robot arm with a chair attached to it)

By: NVirus

NVirus — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:36:45 +0000

I agree with the comments about walking before you run. Not knowing much about the original set of controls this might be way wrong, but I am assuming from the video that they were hardwired in someway so you had to be in the control room. With the wiimote you can be fairly close to whatever you are working on and also change your POV while operating.

By: RobotGuy

RobotGuy — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:15:48 +0000

I agree queeg.

BTW, “April Fools. Queeg never existed. It was me all along.”

By: Queeg

Queeg — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:47:14 +0000

Man, I hope those grapplers never become self-aware.

By: Anunnymouse

Anunnymouse — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:08:12 +0000

“They’re not utilizing the tracking aspects at all.”

Thats still to come ;) this is an expensive peice of machinery, it makes sense to walk before you run

By: dijum

dijum — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:57:01 +0000

Because the wiimote is wireless, how cool would it be to ride on the robotic arm, AND control it from up there?

By: Andy Waschick

Andy Waschick — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:37:50 +0000

This is MADE OF WIN

By: maxwell

maxwell — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:35:25 +0000

Does anybody know the cost difference between the wiimote and the controls made for the roboarm? Because I think it would be funny to spend a bunch of money on the controls then see the office make the arms work off of a kids toy…

By: KVirtanen

KVirtanen — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:09:11 +0000

I wonder if the guy operating the arm should use the Wiimote’s lanyard – I wouldn’t want him dropping the Wiimote now that it’s controlling the arm.