My son bought me the CamJam3 robot for Fathers Day recently. I’ve had a lot of fun getting it to follow automatically the lines and avoid obstacles, but reading some of the websites, I wasn’t hopeful about getting the wiimote control working.
Your worksheet on setting up the Wiimote worked brilliantly. I have just finished setting it up. It works great. I wish I could say the same for my driving skills :).
The only problem I’m having is getting the wii_controller.py to run at startup.
A minor problem that I’m sure I’ll sort out.
Is there a way to control the robot with the nunchuck attached to the wiimote ?
Hi David,
Apologies for not replying sooner.
Take a look at: https://www.recantha.co.uk/blog/?p=13999 – it shows you how to get something to start at start-up. Give me a shout if you have any problems.
Nunchuck control is slightly more difficult – as far as I know no-one’s published anything open-source yet that deals with it. Would be nice, though!
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Mike
I’m very sorry, I’ve only just found your reply.
After searching the Internet for ages I finally found a Python script that said it would control a Wiimote and nunchuck.
I stripped out a lot of unwanted code and got it to work as I wanted it to.
I can’t remember where I got it though so I don’t want to post it.
Verkkokauppa.com is a reseller of Raspberry Pi model in Finland. Pi-2B price is 49,90 € at the moment (Nov 13, 2015).
Hi,
My son bought me the CamJam3 robot for Fathers Day recently. I’ve had a lot of fun getting it to follow automatically the lines and avoid obstacles, but reading some of the websites, I wasn’t hopeful about getting the wiimote control working.
Your worksheet on setting up the Wiimote worked brilliantly. I have just finished setting it up. It works great. I wish I could say the same for my driving skills :).
The only problem I’m having is getting the wii_controller.py to run at startup.
A minor problem that I’m sure I’ll sort out.
Is there a way to control the robot with the nunchuck attached to the wiimote ?
Thanks again.
Dave
Hi David,
Apologies for not replying sooner.
Take a look at: https://www.recantha.co.uk/blog/?p=13999 – it shows you how to get something to start at start-up. Give me a shout if you have any problems.
Nunchuck control is slightly more difficult – as far as I know no-one’s published anything open-source yet that deals with it. Would be nice, though!
—
Mike
Hi Mike,
I’m very sorry, I’ve only just found your reply.
After searching the Internet for ages I finally found a Python script that said it would control a Wiimote and nunchuck.
I stripped out a lot of unwanted code and got it to work as I wanted it to.
I can’t remember where I got it though so I don’t want to post it.
Thanks again,
Dave