Bloo
11-29-2006, 04:18 PM
Ok ya'll, check it.
I told ya'll last week that my cat chewed through the cable to my sensor bar and it had been like a week since I've been able to play Twilight Princess. Finally fustrated over the fact, I decided to get online and see if I could find some tips for repairing the wire myself. What I came across was pretty interesting though.
For some time now we've been under the impression that the Sensor Bar was the interface that the Wii used to communicate with the controller. Well I'm here to tell you people that that is wrong! The sensor bar itself is only a string of 10 Infrared LEDs, 5 on each side of the bar, that's it. We've been under the impression that the LEDs were in the Wiimote itself and the sensor bar was the "tracker" of it's movement, which it then sent to the Wii via cable. We've had it backwards this whole time. The Wiimote itself is the tracker and the Sensor bar provides the light the wiimote needs in order to track itself. What the Sensor bar does is so basic that you don't even need one. You can replace it with two Candles even and acheive the same effect!
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Or if you'd like to go with something less risky, Make your own wireless Sensor Bar! (http://doctabu.livejournal.com/64758.html)
I've been using the candle method all day. And it works just as well as the sensor bar itself did. no problems until the fire began to disappear behind the melted wax. Easily remedied by just removing the excess wax though. I just wish I would've found this out sooner, would've been able to save $15 buying a new one from Nintendo...
I told ya'll last week that my cat chewed through the cable to my sensor bar and it had been like a week since I've been able to play Twilight Princess. Finally fustrated over the fact, I decided to get online and see if I could find some tips for repairing the wire myself. What I came across was pretty interesting though.
For some time now we've been under the impression that the Sensor Bar was the interface that the Wii used to communicate with the controller. Well I'm here to tell you people that that is wrong! The sensor bar itself is only a string of 10 Infrared LEDs, 5 on each side of the bar, that's it. We've been under the impression that the LEDs were in the Wiimote itself and the sensor bar was the "tracker" of it's movement, which it then sent to the Wii via cable. We've had it backwards this whole time. The Wiimote itself is the tracker and the Sensor bar provides the light the wiimote needs in order to track itself. What the Sensor bar does is so basic that you don't even need one. You can replace it with two Candles even and acheive the same effect!
_1vQFchFr_Q
Or if you'd like to go with something less risky, Make your own wireless Sensor Bar! (http://doctabu.livejournal.com/64758.html)
I've been using the candle method all day. And it works just as well as the sensor bar itself did. no problems until the fire began to disappear behind the melted wax. Easily remedied by just removing the excess wax though. I just wish I would've found this out sooner, would've been able to save $15 buying a new one from Nintendo...