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Do it yourself wireless Wii sensorbar

Postby LOKI » Sat Nov 25, 2006 12:21 am

It can be done quite easily and pretty cheap. Mine came out great. No soldering required with some creative use of terminal strips. It works just as well as the official one and runs off 4 AA batteries. I'll post pics in the morning.
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Postby YURILOVER » Sat Nov 25, 2006 8:36 am

I saw a video where one guy just used some candles. I wonder if the same can be done with a couple flashlights.
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Postby LOKI » Sat Nov 25, 2006 1:22 pm

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Postby ssj100matt » Sat Nov 25, 2006 2:50 pm

Looks good... Is it more responsive than the regular one?...
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Postby LOKI » Sat Nov 25, 2006 3:16 pm

I haven't really noticed a difference. If I were to do it again I'd make each 1/2 seperate from each other for larger projection screens. ALthough for what I need it for it will be fine.
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Postby WarriorBob » Sun Nov 26, 2006 11:46 pm

So this is something I've been curious about.

It's pretty clear that the Wiimote only reads light in and doesn't send it back out. This is how the sensorbar works and therefore any light source of the proper frequency will work with it.

What I'm curuious about is how exactly the data is read by the controller - does it simply need points of light to check against, or is it specifically looking for two points of light placed a known distance apart? If the former is true, then it is possible to put one light on each corner of the screen, or put lights on either side so that pointing in the center of the screen is really the center of the screen.

The Wii makes me want to attempt a million different hardware hacks to see what I can make it do.
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Postby gs68 » Mon Nov 27, 2006 9:40 am

On most modern light gun arcade games (such as Time Crisis 4 and most of the House of the Dead series), the guns use infrared sensors much like the one on the Wiimote. Around the screen there's 10 infrared lights--2 on top and 2 on the bottom.

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Maybe you could try that same configuration of lights, though it would be a bit messy trying to set up 10 lights on your TV.

Or, you could just buy a gun game cabinet and hook the Wii up to the monitor :wink:
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