LinkBack URL
About LinkBacks
Reply With QuoteYou don't even need a bar. Some dude used frikken candles.
+ Reply to Thread
Results 1 to 6 of 6
Thread: My Self-made Wii "hax"
- 01-02-2007 05:45 PM #1The 'stache
- Join Date
- Jul 2006
- Gender
- Location
- The Netherlands
- Posts
- 1,969
- Likes
- 5
I have yet to acquire a Wii itself, but the Wii has a nice component called the Wii Sensor Bar.
Basically, this thing calibrates the Wiimote (the Wii controller), which allows the whole pointing thing.
I've "hijacked" the Wiimote's signals and hooked it up to my PC with bluetooth controllers and an application called GlovePIE. This is just a programmable input engine for stuff like joysticks, mouses, keyboards, etc, but it works very nicely with the Wiimote (and is also sorta especially programmed for it). Still, you need a Sensor bar if you don't want it all to be super choppy. The Sensor bar being connected to the Wii, me not yet having a Wii but having just a Wiimote, I wanted to use the Sensor Bar scripts !
What do you do? You make your own sensor bar.
The original:
Mine:
[Click for pics]
Hell, not only is mine wireless and has an on/off switch, but it also hogs a lot less power! The original one is 13V, mine is 6V.
What's the deal? All it does is power 6 (or in the original Sensor Bar's case 10) Infrared Light Emitting Diodes (IR LEDs), and the Wiimote does the rest. I simply put it under my monitor, turn it on, and I'm all set.
Hurray!
- 01-02-2007 07:33 PM #2Eprac Diem
- Join Date
- May 2006
- LD Count
- i/0
- Gender
- Location
- Canada
- Posts
- 1,957
- Likes
- 44
- 01-02-2007 09:31 PM #3now what bitches
- Join Date
- Mar 2006
- Gender
- Location
- motherfucking space.
- Posts
- 526
- Likes
- 0
THE original:
I can't disagree with that.
- 01-03-2007 07:53 AM #4The 'stache
- Join Date
- Jul 2006
- Gender
- Location
- The Netherlands
- Posts
- 1,969
- Likes
- 5
..The candles emulated the function of the bar (you do need a bar, or a fitting substitute), and I can - out of personal experience - say that candles don't work well. Yes, while they might work, they are in accurate and the mouse cursor jerks and jumps very often.
Originally Posted by arby 
The thing is, it needs two points of light. IR Light works best, but other light tends to work as well. Sorta.
- 01-04-2007 07:39 PM #5Member
- Join Date
- Jun 2004
- Location
- Scotland, in a nice white padded room.
- Posts
- 253
- Likes
- 0
I got onto the link you posted there and then realised I'd been there already, I saw this on Wiili the other day
I still need to make a wireless sensor bar for my wiimote mouse, I'll get round to it sometime soon...Raised by: Ffx-Dreamz and readopted by Ophelia
- 01-05-2007 06:20 AM #6The 'stache
- Join Date
- Jul 2006
- Gender
- Location
- The Netherlands
- Posts
- 1,969
- Likes
- 5
You're on WiiLi, really?
What's your username?
Posting Permissions
- You may not post new threads
- You may not post replies
- You may not post attachments
- You may not edit your posts
Bookmarks