Our project

Our goal is to develop a "modernized" version of the game Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots, where two players operate boxers using thumb buttons to try and "pop" their opponent's head up. We will utilize Nintento Wiimotes to read the left/right dodges as well as punch actions of one or two players and correlate them to these same exact actions with the two robots in the arena.

A Raspberry Pi will receive the data from the Wiimotes through a bluetooth hub as well as output sounds to acompany the game. This will wire to a microcontroller that will send the sound commands to the Pi, as well as control two LCD screens, the LEDs, the utilize data from the wiimotes to tell the stepper motors and linear actuators when to dodge and punch, respectively.

Originally, our project was going to make use of the Microsoft Kinect, but we found out that the Kinect and Respberry Pi are not fully compatible for all that we wanted it to do without a $100+ adapter. Therefore, we opted to switch to a Wiimote and Nunchuck per fighter, connected wirelessly via bluetooth to the Pi. This has had success and will be our new implementation.