My friend and I are college students and he decided to bring his wii, but we forgot the sensor bar. So we searched it up and found a video of people using candles, unfortunately we can’t have flames. So we looked up more videos and found the remote trick and it worked!

This is a video of everything you need to make you wireless Wii sensor bar for about !

A quick video showing the IR transmitters contained within the Nintendo Wii Sensor Bar

I like using the Wii Remote as a mouse and controller for games on my PC using GlovePie, but my Wii is not normally near my computer, so using it’s censor bar required moving the entire system. I decided to try to build a sensor bar that I could just use at my PC – It works okay, but not quite as good as I would like. The mouse is a little jumpy. Despite this, it seems to work just fine when I put it on top of my TV and play the wii. Pretty much normal. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Edit: I forgot to mention, i’m not really that technical, so I conferred with my brother on resisters and such. He told me to use a 3 ohm resister, but they didn’t have any, so he told me I could use two tens, and lower their resistance to 5. This project may not need resisters, but I figured the LEDs will last longer if they are not at their max.

This is an easy do-it-yourself project if you have your Wii connected to a projector and it is all for about ! myspace.com/wiidoesrule That’s the website…hope you like it!

You can use candles in place of a Sensor Bar to point with the Wii-Mote. Try it out yourself!

I recently read that you can replace the Wii sensor bar with two candles. Apparently the wiimote uses two points of infrared light at either end of the sensor bar. Now I can use my projector. Woohoo!

one of the easiest to follow and best ” how – to ” video on youtube for extending your wii sensor bar. iv’e documented every piece so you will know what to expect if you wish to extend your sensor bar. the video may be quite long, but its information packed and will help you achieve the proper connections and have peace of mind at the same time. ( only mod if you think you are capable of achieving the same results. i cannot accept responsibility for failed attempts / injury or malfunctioning hardware. you take the risk on your own bat, soldering requires a bit of skill and steady hands. you should wear protective clothing and also glasses for this mod . i do not recommend anyone under the age of 16 to attempt this mod alone ) remember, its your health and property. if you feel like you cant do it, dont worry. there are plenty of aftermarket products which cater for this very solution. take care.

Quick note: Yes, this is the ORIGINAL Sensor Bar candle video. After this was posted, many others followed suit, including Joystiq.com. IGN.com even made several references to it in their articles an blogs, and someone referenced it in Wikipedia. Many have heard that the Wii’s Sensor Bar does not really sense anything at all but that the remote does all the detection sort of like a monochrome digital camera. What many do not realize is that the Sensor Bar is just two sets of IR leds that emit just enough light to be detected by the remote for triangulation. Knowing this, I decided to do an experiment. I turned out all the lights in my living room and lit two candles about three feet apart beneath my projector screen, seeing as they emit several wavelengths of light, both visible and beyond. Surprisingly it worked atleast as well as Sensor Bar when directly in front of the screen (but worse far to the left or right) because of the combination of increased IR light output and increased distance. Any two IR sources will potentially work in this manner (including two TV/DVD remotes with any buttons held). The video was recorded on a Cingular 8125 set to “cool” (bluescale) to capture enough light. I wish I could’ve used a higher-quality capture method, but the low light made it difficult. At the beginning of the video, I hold up the pack-in sensor bar to show that it is not plugged into the Wii (since it’s tough to tell in the very low light of the room). I then grab the Wii …

Alon from chatterbox Video Game Radio – www.chatterboxgameshow.com has a projector and a Wii and hates batteries. Why make a wireless sensor bar when you’ve got power adapters laying around?

The title explains it all: How to Make a Wireless Wii Sensor Bar. A correction: When I say AA battery in the video, I actually mean AAA battery. Yes, I suck at life, but don’t care enough to change it =) If you have any questions, post on the comments and I or someone else should be able to help you. -Also, I am planning on making an IR transmitter with a longer range. I noticed that the range on this sensor bar is only about 10 or so feet; it is really finicky or doesn’t work at all beyond that. I’ll let you know how that goes.

After a little detective work done by my bros, I explain exactly what the Wii’s “sensor” bar is and why you don’t necessarily need one.