Friday Video: Nunchuk camera hack

This video drives me crazy: I had -no idea- the accelerometers in the nunchuk were anywhere near that sensitive. I honestly have thought all along that the wiimote itself had a relatively full suite of accelerometers and the nunchuk only had something more rudimentary, something that could mostly just detect whether or not the unit is being shaken, and maybe could tell left from right and up from down, but very little info in terms of how much you were moving it in any direction.

Why did I think this? Because I've yet to use any game except for wii sports boxing (which I've played very little, I just don't much like it) that uses the nunchuk motion for anything more precise than "shake it" (zelda, godfather) or "move it to the right to reload, forward to honk a car's horn" (godfather).

Where are the games that use this kind of 1-to-1 control????
Don't tell me you can't do it --- this dude is!

Are there games I haven't played (I haven't played all that many) that are taking advantage of these sweet-looking sensors? Please tell me, I want to play them.

Thanks!

Love,
Grimes

That's 100% fantastic. Only thing I would have changed is making it so you have to hold the Z button to have the camera move, rather than hold the Z button to keep the camera still. I'd want to be able to set the nunchuk down once the camera angle was set without it screwing it up.

I seem to have mispoke, it's the remote you do that with in baseball, not the nunchuck. Oh well.

Hi,
I'm the author of the video.

Thank you all for your comments.

You can find the "how-to" at:
http://diydrones.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=705844%3ABlogPost%3A31713

Ciao,
Andrea

Sembra che il destino degli italiani sia imprescindibile da quello Nintendo. Grande andrea!
It looks like Italians' destiny is bound with the Nintendo's one, that's so cool :D