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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 4:05PM StormEagle said

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Oh man, the possibilities.....

SKYNET!!!!
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 4:08PM Liekos said

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But where are the shitty stuffed animals/toys/DeVry University diplomas to try and pick up? What's my motivation?
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 5:09PM Anthology said

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You could pick up a tank with this and you're worried about a stuffed bunny.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 5:53PM Liekos said

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You can't hug your children with NUCLEAR ARMS!
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 4:09PM Deaths Hand said

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Yeah but the grapple always drops the stuffed animal at the last second.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 4:09PM The Wicker Man said

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LAME!!!! Wii is for soccer moms, old people, little kids, and mad scientist...oh wait MAD SCIENTIST? RAD!
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 4:10PM StormEagle said

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GIANT ENEMY CLAWS!!!!

AHH!!!!!
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 4:10PM Uncle Jesse said

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Now you're playing with power!
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 4:10PM StormEagle said

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Dude, that's super, duper, quadruple power!
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 4:10PM (Unverified) said

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lol yeah have them fight!!
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 4:11PM (Unverified) said

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That looks sick...

But i am relatively skeptical if it is real or not.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 6:24PM FreudianLemur said

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The Wiimote's accelerometers (motion sensors) are being used to control this, not the infra red sensor, so no sensor bar is needed. But I agree, it could be faked.
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Posted: Jul 10th 2009 10:00AM (Unverified) said

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I'm a controls engineer, this is definitely a simple hack if you know how the accelerometers return info to your computer assuming the claw is controlled electronically and not mechanically.

Odds are though, this thing was controlled with a couple joysticks in the first place which will return values similar to that of the wiimote and all the engineer had to do was switch the feedback device to the wiimote. Depending on how well written the control engineer's software was written in the first place, this could implemented in a few hours of coding and debugging.
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Posted: Jul 10th 2009 10:03AM (Unverified) said

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Correction: change the word "feedback" to "input". The feedback would be from sensors on the pneumatic pumps which would allow for a better, more accurate reflection of the user input.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 4:13PM MowDownJoe said

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Stop spamming your stupid site.

That said, interesting bit. Could've used some better music, though... almost fell asleep.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 4:14PM (Unverified) said

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Best thing ever.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 4:15PM Shiaoran said

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- 'You do have a Wii? Get the f*** out of here!'

- Say that to my giant claw, beeyotch!
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 4:24PM jhowlett said

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you could play win your own claw game with these
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 4:34PM RobS the 3rd said

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Today: Wiimotes controlling giant claws

Tomorrow: ROBOT APOCALYPSE!
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 4:48PM Shmil said

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Robocalypse? Oh god no!
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 5:14PM (Unverified) said

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i believe the robocalypse has already begun... in Japan http://blog.flickr.net/en/2009/07/09/a-robot-rise/

this is just Australia trying to play catchup. maybe the US can too if we could just use what's left of the auto industry and find the allspark.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 4:38PM whylekat said

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is this real? does it not need a wiimote sensor or something? I dunno if I'm buying into this...
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 4:40PM Gib said

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I agree with Joe... about your spamming.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 4:52PM oOWallaceOo said

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Looks like R.O.B has been at the steroids
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 5:19PM (Unverified) said

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Between the music and the guys voice, the video sounded like a dating service video, real estate show, or possible some sort of Jacques Cousteau-esque documentary.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 6:07PM (Unverified) said

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Make it a Powerglove, and then I'll be impressed
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 6:10PM Yatcho said

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But the real question is: Does it have motion + support?
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 6:11PM FredFredrickson said

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I've had some fun with the Wii, but I wouldn't want to hook it up to something like this... I've had too many instances of the cursor disappearing from the screen, following by it spastically jumping around the screen to want to see a giant robotic arm do the same.

And no, I was not moving my arms frantically around at the time. I was just waiting for the cursor to come back.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 6:23PM FreudianLemur said

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Notice this isn't using a sensor bar? So there would be no problem with jumping about. Your problem is probably something to to with the Wiimote seeing other sources of light (ie a window on a sunny day). The jumping about is nothing to do with the accelerometers.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 8:45PM KaBob799 said

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As said, its not using the IR, but you might be too far from your sensor bar.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 7:26PM (Unverified) said

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I agree with Gib about agreeing with Joe... about your spamming.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 7:52PM TaskMaster said

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When this is Natal controlling a giant Mech, my insignificant life will be complete.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 8:22PM (Unverified) said

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I agree with Dave about agreeing with Gib about agreeing with Joe... about your spamming.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 9:06PM Foetoid said

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I agree with Stevo.
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