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When my sister lost the "sensor bar" on her Wii I showed her how to use a pair of candles to replace it. The sensor bar is just a a set of IR lights that the ca
by narwally 6y ago
When my sister lost the "sensor bar" on her Wii I showed her how to use a pair of candles to replace it. The sensor bar is just a a set of IR lights that the camera on the wii-mote detects.
- jagraff 6y agoI'd imagine a pair of candles would cause the cursor to jump around a lot because of the flickering - how did you solve that problem?
- xyzzy_plugh 6y agoWith a clean, dry wick it's pretty easy to get a very still flame for a long, long period of time. Though if you have a fan or something blowing, you're out of luck.
- function_seven 6y agoI imagine a vigorous game of Wii Tennis will cause those candles to flicker. And will provide a convenient excuse why I was unable to return that serve.
- hackmiester 6y agoUnfortunately your excuse is no good, because Tennis does not use the Sensor Bar.
- function_seven 6y agoWell then that's my excuse! I thought it did, so I was making sure to point the controller in the proper direction, while my opponent was cheating and flicking it any which way. Look, it wasn't my fault, ok?
- thaumasiotes 6y agoUse a candleholder that includes a glass sheath. The solution has been known for a long, long time, because a major cause of flickering unprotected candles -- or even extinguishing them -- is that you walk around while holding them.
- numpad0 6y agoMiniature lightbulbs works to the same effect. Anything that emit near IR works.
- mipmap04 6y agoYeah it's funny that it is called a sensor bar when it has no sensors. For my undergrad, we had a cross-major project to build a robot that shot pingpong balls at various targets that were tagged with IR lights. We used 2 wiimotes to calculate the 3D space.
- chrischen 6y agoValve lighthouse "trackers" work in a similar, albeit slightly more complicated, way.
- pftburger 6y agoYes! I am now imagining a vive tracker built out of two candles spinning at 300hz What could go wrong!?
- amatecha 6y agoYeah I did that one time as well! I had forgotten the sensor bar at someone's place after taking the Wii there.. had it back and home and remembered it's just IR LEDs or whatever, figured two candles should emit the ~same light and, lo and behold, worked quite well! IIRC it was a bit jittery due to the candle flames wavering about, but hey, better than nothing :)