mbed Robot Racing Wii

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  1. How does it work?
  2. Code
  3. More

We decided to make a physical version of a computer karting game, using mbed to control robots with a Wii Wheel. We’ve added power-ups and a leaderboard too!

How does it work?

The mbed Microcontroller sits on top of the m3pi robot base to control the motors. It also uses a USB Bluetooth dongle to connect to the Wii Wheel, using the button and accelerometer data to decide the motor speeds.

A beam breaker controls a leaderboard website to time and rank lap times.

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The robot also has an RFID Reader on the bottom, which picks up RFID Tags embedded in the track that act as power-ups.

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Code

Import programWiiRacing

First draft of Wii Robot Racing, a simple example of using Wii Remote connected via bluetooth to control an m3pi robot, plus RFID \"powerups\" to modify behaviour

Last commit 11 Apr 2011 by Simon Ford

More

This is based on our original robot racing idea:

More soon...

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