Mows your lawn
Boffins at the
University of Southern Denmark have developed a Casmobot robotic lawnmower,
which is operated using a Nintendo Wii remote.At last you can mow the lawn while
sitting on your deck sipping beer, and if you like you can also play mowing
pacman.
Kjeld Jensen siad that the Casmobot project is about making grass
cutting more efficient. It uses a standard motion-sensitive Nintendo Wii
'Wiimote' controller to communicate via Bluetooth technology to a computer and
robotics module built in to the mower.
If you tilt the Wiimote forward, the
mower goes forwards, tilting the Wiimote backwards puts the lawnmower in to
reverse. Users can guide the mower to map out the borders of a lawn, and then
leave it to automatically cut the area on its own.