September 11, 2010
Maker Workshop – Personal Flight Recorder on Make: televisio
John Park hacks a Wii controller and turns it into a personal flight recorder that can sense and measure the stomach-churning G forces of roller coasters and other high-speed, high-risk activities.
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wii promotion!!!!!
try taking that through airport security
@matthew2921 SparkFun
Awesome project [: You did an amazing job making this video as well.
How does he connect the nunchuck to the computer when he shows that program?
does anyone know where i can get a wii chuck adapter?
if so please tell me
Yeah, totally not a bomb. No way anyone like the TSA or park security would mistake it for that. /s
Where did you get the LCD screen from
all of makemagazine and maker shed videos are great
cool!
looks like a bomb
good luck getting that on a coaster,or even in the park.
very cool
yhanks for posting 5 stars
alota people including me think it looks alot like a bomb
no the board he used was a Arduino Duemilanove
this video was uploaded on my bday
this is a fascinating video. thanks!
what kind of bored is that is it the “Arduino Mega AVR ATmega1280 USB board”
I dont see the meaning of having a small display on it on a rollercoaster, it’s not like you’re gonna sit and look at it all the time. I’d personally go with a memory of some kind, so I can look at it later.
Also, if I’d used a nunchuck, I would’ve taken the casing of it, and then I’d mount it inside the yellow case.
you can buy a tri axis accelerometer from parallax. I they might have it in makershed as well. so you can lose the wii remote.
not really bombs are made to NOT call atention to them-self so I bright yellow box is a poor choise.
It looks so much like a bomb.
try taking that on a plane
im not gowing to rewen a wee