From game controller to a scientific sensor
DEC 17, 2009
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023934
Wired.com : Inspired by videos of renowned hacker Johnny Chung Lee who turned the $40 Nintendo Wiimote remote controller into a finger-tracking device and a touchscreen white board, physicist Rolf Hut of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands has built a Wiimote wind sensor."It was just a bendy pole with an empty bottle on top with an LED light on the bottle,” Hut said. “And it swayed in the wind."The Wiimote can track just about anything: All that’s needed is an LED light. Hydrologist Willem Luxemburg, also from Delft University of Technology demonstrated a hacked water-level sensor made from a Wiimote and a plastic boat at the meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
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