Do you peel the protective sheet under the wii sensor bar? isn’t it inconvenient to have 2 sticky tabs under the sensor bar.
My cat chewed through the wire of my Wii sensor bar. How would I fix that myself?
Instead of waiting for a retail wireless sensor bar, or hacking your own, use two candles spaced several inches apart to control your Wii!
I broke my Wii sensor bar a couple weeks ago and I don’t want to use candles or LED lights. Is there any way I can get a replacement Wii sensor bar? Preferably free?
me and taylor messing with the wii
I am unsure why the wii sensor bar comes off of the wii. i do not have a wii but am planning on getting one. if someone could just explain it to me that would be great!
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 …
if i set up my wii sensor bar already, could i remove it and place it elsewhere. or does the adhesive part of the sensor bar prevent me from detaching it? ty in advanced.
This is a homemade wireless Wii sensor bar. Check out how to make it so you projector owners won’t be left out in the cold! More information about the build: doctabu.livejournal.com
Looks like its a magnetic thing because there is discoloration on the left and right side, one is dark, the other is like a green when white or lighter colors are showing. Theres nothing magnetic around the tv, other than the wii sensor bar on top and the use of the controllors. Would the sensor bar or the wireless controllors cause my tv to discolor?
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?
We are setting up our Wii for the first time and were trying to get the sensitivty of the remotes and sensor bar correct. We turned it way down – thinking it was too sensitive – but now can’t get the sensor bar to pick up anything! No cursor on the screen – at all! BUT we can’t figure out how to reset it either, HELP!!
The port/slot that the sensor bar plugs into on my wii is wrecked. Ive been using a wireless sensor bar for a while, but much prefer the plug in one. I am unable to plug in a sensor bar because there are bits of an old jammed sensor bar was stuck in, and I wrecked it even more try to get it out.
Anyone know where to get a replacement slot?
The cat chewed through the cable of our Wii Sensor Bar, looking for a temporary solution until I could get a new one, I found that candles worked pretty well
I just bought a new wireless wii sensor bar but i can’t get it to work on my tv. It has batteries.