This could pick up your house, probably
Bet you didn't know your Wiimote could handle such power
What do you get if you mix 15 tonnes of steel, 200 bar of hydraulic pressure and a Wiimote?
The answer: a totally awesome industrial grappler.
The chaps behind these two grapplers - which use a control system written in Python software language - have tinkered around with them so that you can operate them using a Wiimote.
Check out the results:
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1. Cipher
09 Jul 2009, 11:16 BST
This is quite a first for the industry.
2. pHaT-aNt_
09 Jul 2009, 11:23 BST
Haha, that's impressive idea, however I'm not 100% convinced they are actually controlling it with the Wiimote
I'm sure it's doable though.
3. Machu
09 Jul 2009, 12:18 BST
Just glad to see the wii-mote had it's crash helmet on.
4. SUPERZELDAMAN
09 Jul 2009, 13:31 BST
That was random
5. opeter
09 Jul 2009, 14:03 BST
Where did they have the sensor bar?
6. Egg miester
09 Jul 2009, 14:32 BST
i want my wii mote to activate heavy machinery, i'd invite over people i dislike to play my wii then smash them with a busted car or dig a big hole and throw them in it, or outfit my wii with a little gun that would spray acid on someone so much fun i could have
7. pixelman
09 Jul 2009, 16:21 BST
OMG! It's written in PYTHON! Python is my favorite language ever. These dudes rock!
8. zappajustin
09 Jul 2009, 17:39 BST
They better use their wrist strap!
9. DaDun
09 Jul 2009, 18:43 BST
WOW SWEET I do programming in python! Rep the snake guys!
10. jangonov
09 Jul 2009, 18:56 BST
I once saw a mechanical arm with a sword attached to it being controlled by a wiimote on youtube. Imagine what wiimotion plus could do!!!
11. pixelman
09 Jul 2009, 19:51 BST
@DaDun: You do!?! Awesome! What kind of stuff do you program?
12. Lady Gryphon
09 Jul 2009, 23:23 BST
I always thought it was cool that the wiimote used bluetooth so could be hooked up to any bluetooth compatible device.
@opeter - You only need the sensor bar to to use the IR camera on the front of the wiimote not for the motion sensing.
13. Metang
10 Jul 2009, 01:19 BST
When I saw the title of this news, I thought this was about an incredibly crappy game. Lol.
This looks very interesting.
14. geek-master
11 Jul 2009, 00:18 BST
now thats another reason to have a wii mote if you dont have a wii
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