HOW TO – Read Wii nunchuck data into an Arduino

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By Phillip Torrone

Phillip Torrone

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June 8th, 2007 4

Chad writes –

I was able to get an Arduino board to read in data from a wii nunchuck. You can read the joystick, buttons and accelerometer data. Using the nunchuck is even cheaper than buying an acceleromter by itself.

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4 thoughts on “HOW TO – Read Wii nunchuck data into an Arduino”

japroach says:

June 8th, 2007 at 2:17 pm

“Using the nunchuck is even cheaper than buying an acceleromter by itself.”

I see plenty of 3 axis accelerometers on digikey for under $20.
chad@chadphillips.org says:

June 8th, 2007 at 7:00 pm

The accelerometer in the nunchuck is the ADXL330. On a breakout board it sells for $34.95 on
sparkfun. The ADXL330 chip by itself sells for $11.58 on digikey.