These two industrial grapplers donât just have cute names (one of them is called "Bender"). Theyâve got a cute control method as well, as they can be jiggled, jaggled and, yes, waggled by a Wii Remote.
These guys used a control system written in Python to replace the armâs regular input (a joystick) with the Wii Remoteâs internal sensors. So you donât even need the IR pointer, they just respond to tilting.
Shame they didnât go one step further and invent a few little industrial moving arm games to go with it.
Using a Wiimote to control a 15-ton metal arm [Go Nintendo]
