Maker Workshop – Personal Flight Recorder on Make: television

John Park hacks a Wii controller and turns it into a personal flight recorder that can sense and measure the stomach-churning G forces of roller coasters and other high-speed, high-risk activities.

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Download the Personal Flight Recorder program for the Arduino.

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