Besides throwing the wii-mote through your TV, one of the few other gripes about the Wii is the wire on the sensor bar.
Everything else is wireless, why require a wire to go from the sensor bar sitting above or below your TV to the Wii?
The do it yourself crowd have dissected the Wii sensor bar and found it to be a fairly simple device. It is already, by design wireless, and the signals are sent to your Wii via TV remote style IR diodes. That ugly cable is nothing more than a power feed. All you really need to do is cut that power cable and solder the wires into a multi-battery AA pack you can get from Radio Shack and you’re pretty much done converting your bar to a wireless device.
But not everyone is cut out for the do it yourself world. The guys at wirelesssensorbar.com have an out of the box solution for you. For $25 you can get a wireless out of the box Wii compatible sensor bar and be up and running in minutes. Their sensor bar has a 3-8 foot range, uses a 9v battery, has 48 hours of playtime and a power on/off switch with LED.
Maybe you’re not one for non-name brand solutions though. If you’re one of those types, Nyko is said to be working on a Wii wireless sensor bar as well. Rumor is it’ll be around $30 but there’s no estimated release date yet.
The do it yourself crowd have dissected the Wii sensor bar and found it to be a fairly simple device. It is already, by design wireless, and the signals are sent to your Wii via TV remote style IR diodes. That ugly cable is nothing more than a power feed. All you really need to do is cut that power cable and solder the wires into a multi-battery AA pack you can get from Radio Shack and you’re pretty much done converting your bar to a wireless device.
But not everyone is cut out for the do it yourself world. The guys at wirelesssensorbar.com have an out of the box solution for you. For $25 you can get a wireless out of the box Wii compatible sensor bar and be up and running in minutes. Their sensor bar has a 3-8 foot range, uses a 9v battery, has 48 hours of playtime and a power on/off switch with LED.
Maybe you’re not one for non-name brand solutions though. If you’re one of those types, Nyko is said to be working on a Wii wireless sensor bar as well. Rumor is it’ll be around $30 but there’s no estimated release date yet.