Using a Nintendo Wii controller with Lego Mindstorms

A while ago, while organising a Lego Mindstorms control day at a school, the class teacher emailed me and asked "have you seen the YouTube video of someone controlling the Mindstorms robot with a Wii controller?"  Now, I have to be honest and say this was like a red rag to a bull as I'm a bit of a Lego freak anyway, which makes the opportunity to work with schools with the Lego Mindstorms and Lego WeDo kits one of the most enjoyable parts of my role.  I even (confession time) had Lego for Christmas this year (see below pic) which combined with Star Wars pretty much confirms my geek status.

GTAUK reflections

Where to start?...Wow, seems an appropriate place!  What an unbelievable couple of days I was lucky enough to spend in London last week at the Google Teacher Academy, learning so much my brain is still processing much of the information - sure I'll get a decent nights sleep at some point!  I also got to meet some amazing and inspiring educators, some of whom I was aware and had followed from afar (I won't embarrass them by naming names!) and some new names who I will definitely be following from now on.  So now the dust has settled, what did I take from the GTA?