This is brilliant. Someone created a small robot- well more like a harness, for the Nintendo Wii bowling game using the Lego robotics system Lego Mindstorms. It moves the Wiimote absolutely perfectly so that it can score a perfect 100% (a 300 score!) on the game.
It’s a heck of a way to cheat! You can watch it in operation on the page- there’s a video!
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With the prevalence of Wifi, and cheap programmable devices, Chumby comes out very soon. It reminds me a little of a Gp2X though that was a games console and Chumby is different.
A Chumby is an always connected (if you have Wifi), battery backed but mains operated compact device (little bigger than a mug) that displays useful and entertaining information from the web: news, photos, music, celebrity gossip, weather, box scores, blogs etc.
It’s Open, running Linux and programmable. It can’t quite do video but that may happen. It has a touch screen so no keyboard needed. Feature wise it has 32 MB of RAM, 2W Speakers, a 320 x 240 Screen, 2xUSB ports, ambient light sensor, headphones socket and Wifi Connectivity. Looks interesting…
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