Homemade Wii Sensorbar

The Wii and its gyroscopic controllers could be a huge and innovative hit for Nintendo. Or it could go the way of the PowerGlove. Either way it will be fun to hack.

Apparently the Wii controllers need a point of reference in order to work. Makes sense, it has to have some way to tell where the TV screen is in the room in relation to the controller, or else the controllers movements wouldn't sync up correctly with whats on the screen.

So the Wii has a "light bar" that plugs into the console and either sits on top or below your TV. But the cord is short, so what do you do when you have a large projection screen you want to play Zelda on? Hack it! Thanks to doctabu for this simple trick: