If you have access to an industrial robot why not implement a Nintendo Wii Remote (Wiimote) to control it. The control it gives you would be more natural than the controls that the manufacturer gives you! Have a look at the other projects being worked on at the Robotics and Embedded Systems at the Technical University of Munich.
"This is a small presentation of a university project I have worked on for the last 6 months. Using a real-time system the orientation of the Wii Remote is polled and sent to the Stäubli TX 60 industrial robot. The concept is stolen from a game named Kororinpa but the graphics are little more realistic 🙂 This was done at the chair Robotics and Embedded Systems Knoll of the Technical University of Munich."
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lol What an awesome idea. And people can get paid to think this stuff up.
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Wiimotes are awesome. I’ve got one controlling my computer’s volume right now. Point it up and it gets louder, down and it gets quieter. 😀
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This is great. I can’t wait to see what else people hack the wiimote to do.
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I am the one that programmed the robot, played the game and uploaded the video to YouTube. We originally wanted to attach a Gyro to the WiiMote but no student dared to do it, hehe. Now that Nintendo officially announced a Gyro, controlling robots should be a lot more fun 😉