Control a Pi bot with a Wiimote

Les Pounder travels back to 2014, the last time that he held a Wiimote that wasn’t embedded in an LCD TV.

YOU’LL NEED Pi 4/4B+/ZeroW/2 WCytron Maker Drive4x AA battery box4x AA batteries2x DC motors5x female-to-malejumper wiresCode: tinyurl.com/APC526bot We are travelling back in time. Nine years, to be precise. That was the last time we connected a Nintendo Wiimote to a Raspberry Pi. In this tutorial, we are learning how to configure a Pi to communicate with a Wiimote over Bluetooth. We’ll put the connection to use by constructing a very simple robot control script to spin motors connected to a Cytron Maker Drive motor controller. Using this script as a template, you can easily build a remote-controlled robot using the Raspberry Pi 4, 3B+, Zero W or Zero 2 W. Wiring up the circuit The circuit has four main components: a Raspberry Pi, a Maker Drive motor controller, motors and…

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