Posted by Sami Finnila on October 8, 2008 at 7:59am
(Hi all! This is my first post..:)http://www.nintendo.com/whatsnew/detail/eMMuRj_N6vntHPDycCJAKWhEO9zBvyPHhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_Remote#Wii_MotionPlusThe rumor is that this new attachment for Wiimote has IvenSense IDG-600 2-axis gyro in it and includes ADC with I2C interface (actually all Wiimote accessories are I2C slaves which is nice to know if you own a NXT.) The great part of it is that this thing is expected to be, well, cheap: 15-20 $ or so.. That's 10$ per axis and includes ADC!Do you think that the gyros will be good for a UAV? I mean that this seems just perfect for my NXT UAV project and budget.By the way, what is your opinion on whether NXT has enough CPU speed to be able to integrate the gyro input accurate enough (provided that one uses a sophisticated integrating method like Simpsons rule or Runge-Kutta method)?I've done some testing already and the GPS navigation I made uses only about 7% or so of the CPU speed of the NXT so there is still quite a lot of it left for that integrating..Sami F.
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I now hear fall of 09 before they are out. More like $40-$50 range tho..
I am usinf a wii nunchuch knockoff for $15 that has a Freescale 3 axis accel and a Freescale 8 bit cpu. Cheep and works great..
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I am usinf a wii nunchuch knockoff for $15 that has a Freescale 3 axis accel and a Freescale 8 bit cpu. Cheep and works great..