Tuesday, July 31, 2007

from console remotes to fast cars...

Posted by klee on VWvortex (a VW enthusiast site)
 
I got this idea after seeing some physics class use the wiimote in some kinda pendulum experiment.

Why not use the wiimote's built in 3-axis accelerometers to measue g-forces, acceleration and even calculate my own 0-60mph times!

So I did. I wrote a script to dump all the g-force readings from the wiimote to a comma separated value file, then did some post processing in MS Excel, and voila, I can see every bump, every curve, my acceleration and braking, and even calculated my current speed using high school physics (v=a*t)

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=3362586

SOF says:  absolute genius.

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