POST your "Home-Made" USB-sensor bar!!!

[achaw]

This is mine, according the size of original wii sensor bar (yes, i own a wii ), using four leds, 2 on left, 2 on right.



Based on this diagram (Spanish):

http://arteparasanarte.blogspot.com/2009/11/usb-wii-sensor-bar-wiimote-hermes.html

[darkshadw]

2 candles is what I use :p.

[inteGReddy]

i just bought a battery powered extended range sensor bar for like 10 dollars and then cut a usb cable off of an old xbox contoller, soldered the negative and positive wires to their respective contacts, and now i dont have to bother changing the batteries out. =D was really little effort.... looks much cooler than a completely home made one.

[achaw]

(06-29-2010, 11:20 PM)inteGReddy Wrote: i just bought a battery powered extended range sensor bar for like 10 dollars and then cut a usb cable off of an old xbox contoller, soldered the negative and positive wires to their respective contacts, and now i dont have to bother changing the batteries out. =D was really little effort.... looks much cooler than a completely home made one.

Yes, the thing is, in my country you can only get the original sensor bar or a generic wirelless, and is very expensive.
Doing my own sendor bar 3/5 dollars, buying, 20/40 dollars

[inteGReddy]

(06-29-2010, 11:43 PM)achaw Wrote: Yes, the thing is, in my country you can only get the original sensor bar or a generic wirelless, and is very expensive.
Doing my own sendor bar 3/5 dollars, buying, 20/40 dollars

this is the one i bought: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16878815101&nm_mc=OTC-Froogle&cm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Nintendo+Wii+Accessories-_-BD+A-_-78815101

it uses 4 AA batteries, which is roughly ~5v. so... usb power source worked perfect. the only thing i dont like about this one is the auto shutoff feature. now that i have it running on usb i dont really need it to auto shutoff but oh well. im too lazy to take a pic of it right now but maybe later....

[admin89]

I'm using real wii sensor bar

[inteGReddy]

here is what mine looks like. not homemade but it is custom.




here you see the negative solder..


here is the positive solder


looks factory ya bimbo!

[boogerlad]

mine is really ugly. Cardboard. Pics soon.

[Wellington2k]

Does it work well? I'm thinking about making one and don't want to waste a ribbon cable on something that doesn't work. By the way, can you get a tutorial in English please?

[jumb]

I bought a wireless one. I hooked it up to a usb cord, but I think the cables were dodgy (my stripping skills weren't too good - don't take that out of context!), so I ended up using batteries anyway.