{"id":10098,"date":"2014-06-20T19:17:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T19:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.14.192\/?p=10098"},"modified":"2014-06-20T19:17:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T19:17:06","slug":"use-a-wii-nunchuck-on-the-raspberrypi-to-control-a-turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10098","title":{"rendered":"Use a Wii Nunchuck on the #RaspberryPi to control a turtle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cms-assets.tutsplus.com\/uploads\/users\/228\/posts\/20984\/image\/nunchuck-multichuck.jpg?resize=560%2C441&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"441\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jason Barnett has written a tutorial over on tuts+ about using a Wii Nunchuck to control the turtle library to draw lines via Python. There&#8217;s two ways of doing it: hacking directly into the circuitry of the Nunchuck or using a tiny adapter board. This looks like a good way of controlling a robot if you don&#8217;t want to do it wirelessly. <a href=\"http:\/\/computers.tutsplus.com\/tutorials\/using-a-wii-nunchuck-to-control-python-turtle--cms-20984\">Read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Barnett has written a tutorial over on tuts+ about using a Wii Nunchuck to control the turtle library to draw lines via Python. 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