Wii Fit Balance Board controls robot

June 27, 2008 By 5 Comments

More Wii Fit Balance Board hacks keep rolling in from Europe. We’re not sure we agree with [Juan Gonzales]‘s assertion that the Wii Fit Balance board is the best way to control robots, but we can’t deny how fun it looks. [Gonzales] managed to control a robot of his own design with the balance board, making it turn when … Read the rest

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Wii Fit World of Warcraft

June 13, 2008 By 12 Comments


By now you’ve probably seen the video of two researchers from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) navigating through maps on Google Earth by using the Wii Fit Balance Board. They’ve gone even further now by using the board to navigate World of Warcraft. It’s obvious that the board is usable with any 3D environment. The … Read the rest

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Best of the rest

May 28, 2008 By 4 Comments

Here are some more stories from today that we found interesting:

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