Mario Kart with real items recreated using RFID tags and go-karts

by Laura Domela

Waterloo Labs’ penchant for recreating video games with real life objects and functionality is alive and well. For their latest project, the Texas-based engineering turned their attention to rigging up go-karts with a real working item system to replicate Mario Kart’s zany kart racing.

Creating a real life Mario Kart is actually quite simple by Waterloo Labs’ explanation. The entire system uses a combination of electric motors with potentiometers, pneumatic pistons, RFID tags embedded with programmed commands and CompactRIO controllers.
via DVICE

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