Novel home-made scope control

[Kenny_10_Bellys]

I was scouting around YouTube looking at scope reviews and little amateur astronomy lessons and found this little tidbit...

[blinky]

Not sure I see the point in it but it's very cool

[Whippy]

Heheh, they're using those Wii controllers for anything these days. Nice setup though .

Tony..

[centroid]

Innovative, but a bit 'gimmicky', IMO.

Dave

[Kenny_10_Bellys]

Yeah, its a gimmick but it is also pretty cool and shows initiative. As controllers go it is probably far more intuitive than anything the standard astronomical community would come up with. I dont kow if Wii controllers are capable of analogue style sensitivity but it would be great if they were.

[Whippy]

The Wii controllers partly use accelerometers for movement detection which are fully analogue.

Tony..

[Beyond_Vision]

It would probably be more intuitive on a Alt/Az mount