A literal Wii sensor bar hack for front projection systems

So you’ve just got your Wii and you’re dying to try it out on your front projection system. Everything’s going fine until you realize that the space between your projector and the screen is a good 30 feet. The Wii sensor bar‘s connection cord extends to just around a dozen feet, so now what?

Well, you won’t need a straw, a paper clip, and some gum to get out of this predicament, MacWiiver. All you gotta do is do what one gamer did: he came up with a pretty literal hack for the sensor bar.

According to Kotaku, the gamer needed a 30-foot sensor bar connection, so he just snipped the sensor bar wire in order to splice in a connection. Upon closer inspection, the gamer found that the wire “is 2 conductor stranded and very thin. There’s white fabric shielding around the wires and a couple strands of white shielding wrapped up with the wires. The 2 conductor wires are twisted.”

He then proceeded to strip the lines back and separate them from the two wires. He then soldered some 24 gauge, 2 conductor wire he bought at Radio Shack on to the sensor bar’s connection. For some reason or another, the connection was kinda resistant to sticking so the soldering process took him three tries.

If you’re stuck with the same problem, you might wanna give it a try. Of course, it’ll be better if Nintendo comes up with a wireless sensor bar, but since we don’t know if or when that one comes out, we’ll just have to settle for what’s out now.

Via Kotaku

So you’ve just got your Wii and you’re dying to try it out on your front projection system. Everything’s going fine until you realize that the space between your projector and the screen is a good 30 feet. The Wii sensor bar‘s connection cord extends to just around a dozen feet, so now what?

Well, you won’t need a straw, a paper clip, and some gum to get out of this predicament, MacWiiver. All you gotta do is do what one gamer did: he came up with a pretty literal hack for the sensor bar.

According to Kotaku, the gamer needed a 30-foot sensor bar connection, so he just snipped the sensor bar wire in order to splice in a connection. Upon closer inspection, the gamer found that the wire “is 2 conductor stranded and very thin. There’s white fabric shielding around the wires and a couple strands of white shielding wrapped up with the wires. The 2 conductor wires are twisted.”

He then proceeded to strip the lines back and separate them from the two wires. He then soldered some 24 gauge, 2 conductor wire he bought at Radio Shack on to the sensor bar’s connection. For some reason or another, the connection was kinda resistant to sticking so the soldering process took him three tries.

If you’re stuck with the same problem, you might wanna give it a try. Of course, it’ll be better if Nintendo comes up with a wireless sensor bar, but since we don’t know if or when that one comes out, we’ll just have to settle for what’s out now.

Via Kotaku