RSSMeasure your car's speed with a Wiimote
This hack shows you how to use a Wiimote, GlovePie, and a Bluetooth dongle to measure your car's acceleration. Pretty cool idea and some nice graphs at the link below.
Wii DIY HACK - Using your Wiimote to measure your car's acceleration!
Posted by Jonah Brucker-Cohen |
Mar 26, 2008 09:00 AM
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| Posted by: Theron Burger on March 26, 2008 at 10:26 AM |
Hehe, after seeing the other wiimote hacks, i was thinking of just this on my drive home today. This should make doing it allot easier :P
| Posted by: Jim on March 26, 2008 at 11:41 AM |
You should change the title. In no way are you measuring your car's speed, only its acceleration.
| Posted by: MadScott on March 27, 2008 at 7:35 AM |
Even though this measures acceleration rather than velocity (inertial navigation, anyone?) it would be fun to see how many lateral G's your Veyron pulled just before it started to slide!
| Posted by: ksmith on April 7, 2008 at 2:01 PM |
Integrating accelerometer data to produce speed can't really be trusted due to the compound error. Double integrating it to get distance is even worse. It'll improve a little bit if you filter it first though, still wouldn't trust it.
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