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Do it yourself wireless Wii sensorbar
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Do it yourself wireless Wii sensorbarIt 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.
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.
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.
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
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