DIY robotic tail wags to your mood
16 October, 2009
category: RFID
DIYer Wei-Chieh Tseng has created a robotic plush tail a la Super Mario Bros. 3 that uses RFID-enabled emotion cards (3 to be exact: angry, happy and sad) to remotely prompt movement from the tail.
As seen in a video recorded by Wei-Chieh Tseng, the “mood tail,” which he programmed himself using Arduino, can either be controlled using a Wii nunchuck, or prompted with a waive of the emotion cards to wag back and forth, curl up, or tuck under.
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