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

achaw · 06-29-2010, 07:59 AM #1

This is mine, according the size of original wii sensor bar (yes, i own a wii Big Grin

), using four leds, 2 on left, 2 on right.

Based on this diagram (Spanish):

http://arteparasanarte.blogspot.com/2009...ermes.html

**darkshadw** · 06-29-2010, 08:39 AM #2

2 candles is what I use :p.

inteGReddy · 06-29-2010, 11:20 PM #3

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, 11:43 PM #4

(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 Big Grin

inteGReddy · (This post was last modified: 06-30-2010, 12:02 AM by 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.as..._-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** · 07-01-2010, 01:43 PM #6

I'm using real wii sensor bar Tongue

inteGReddy · 07-02-2010, 01:32 PM #7

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** · 07-02-2010, 02:04 PM #8

mine is really ugly. Cardboard. Pics soon.

~~Wellington2k~~ · (This post was last modified: 07-02-2010, 09:35 PM by 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 · 07-02-2010, 09:42 PM **#10**

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.