My son bought me the CamJam3 robot for Fathers Day recently. I’ve had a lot of fun getting it to follow automatically the lines and avoid obstacles, but reading some of the websites, I wasn’t hopeful about getting the wiimote control working.
Your worksheet on setting up the Wiimote worked brilliantly. I have just finished setting it up. It works great. I wish I could say the same for my driving skills :).
The only problem I’m having is getting the wii_controller.py to run at startup.
A minor problem that I’m sure I’ll sort out.
Is there a way to control the robot with the nunchuck attached to the wiimote ?
Hi David,
Apologies for not replying sooner.
Take a look at: https://www.recantha.co.uk/blog/?p=13999 – it shows you how to get something to start at start-up. Give me a shout if you have any problems.
Nunchuck control is slightly more difficult – as far as I know no-one’s published anything open-source yet that deals with it. Would be nice, though!
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Mike
I’m very sorry, I’ve only just found your reply.
After searching the Internet for ages I finally found a Python script that said it would control a Wiimote and nunchuck.
I stripped out a lot of unwanted code and got it to work as I wanted it to.
I can’t remember where I got it though so I don’t want to post it.
the python-cwiid library doesnt seem to exist anymore and compiling it from scratch is nt working out either. Im stuck trying to get the wiimote working with the edukit
Verkkokauppa.com is a reseller of Raspberry Pi model in Finland. Pi-2B price is 49,90 € at the moment (Nov 13, 2015).
Hi,
My son bought me the CamJam3 robot for Fathers Day recently. I’ve had a lot of fun getting it to follow automatically the lines and avoid obstacles, but reading some of the websites, I wasn’t hopeful about getting the wiimote control working.
Your worksheet on setting up the Wiimote worked brilliantly. I have just finished setting it up. It works great. I wish I could say the same for my driving skills :).
The only problem I’m having is getting the wii_controller.py to run at startup.
A minor problem that I’m sure I’ll sort out.
Is there a way to control the robot with the nunchuck attached to the wiimote ?
Thanks again.
Dave
Hi David,
Apologies for not replying sooner.
Take a look at: https://www.recantha.co.uk/blog/?p=13999 – it shows you how to get something to start at start-up. Give me a shout if you have any problems.
Nunchuck control is slightly more difficult – as far as I know no-one’s published anything open-source yet that deals with it. Would be nice, though!
—
Mike
same problem here
Hi Mike,
I’m very sorry, I’ve only just found your reply.
After searching the Internet for ages I finally found a Python script that said it would control a Wiimote and nunchuck.
I stripped out a lot of unwanted code and got it to work as I wanted it to.
I can’t remember where I got it though so I don’t want to post it.
Thanks again,
Dave
do you possibly think i could somehow have that code to use
do you possibly think i could somehow have that code to use as a github link for use on my pi
the python-cwiid library doesnt seem to exist anymore and compiling it from scratch is nt working out either. Im stuck trying to get the wiimote working with the edukit
Try pip install cwiid. Or is that what you tried before?
Alternatively, try https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-wiimote-controllers/