| so who's tried the cool sensor bar trick? (if you know what i'm talkin about) |
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| i'm a gold digger. GIVE ME NOW!!!! |
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 Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:03 pm
hey everyone! I just found out the coolest thing about a week ago! i thought it was pretty cool i'm geekin out about it! xd so here's the story:
my bro has his own place and we both got a wii after spending 17 hours in front f best buy (awesome experience) anyway he has two cats and one day he found the little b*****ds had chewed up the cord to his sensor bar scream . he was ticked and order another for $10 from Nintendo. (not bad) so later he called me and told me that he had read online that if u don't have a sensor bar u could place two lit candles at the ends of the top of ur tv and it'll act like a sensor bar. I was like WHAT??!!! so i tried it and it f-ing works! try it out for urself. IT'S AMAZING!!! blaugh heart xp
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Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 2:36 pm
That's a bit creepy. And I would try it but. o.o; I gots no Wii yet since the stores are running out of stock faster than you can say Wii. T-T Kinda ticks me off. Otherwise I'd try it.
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 1:14 am
In theory that would work, but does it actually? I mean, the sensor bar works by giving out some sort of light (Infrared is most likely) from two sets of IR-Emitters, one at each end (under the black bits). As a candle gives out some IR, that may well work...
Seriously though? eek
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 8:48 pm
Aryra In theory that would work, but does it actually? I mean, the sensor bar works by giving out some sort of light (Infrared is most likely) from two sets of IR-Emitters, one at each end (under the black bits). As a candle gives out some IR, that may well work... Seriously though? eek Two at each end, actually. And yeah, any sort of light source would work. My christmas tree had to be turned off when I'd play it, it'd screw with the wiimote too much. XP
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 1:15 pm
Aryra In theory that would work, but does it actually? I mean, the sensor bar works by giving out some sort of light (Infrared is most likely) from two sets of IR-Emitters, one at each end (under the black bits). As a candle gives out some IR, that may well work... Seriously though? eek It doesn't send of IR waves. Only a white light and the wiimote is actually what registers the motion sensing. Thats why its 40 bucks.
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 3:12 am
No, its IR. Use a camera or any video recorder and look at the sensor bar when its on.
The video screen should show it glowing a lovely purple, something that can't be seen normally.
Besides, I KNOW its IR...I went and took apart my sensor bar xd Put it back together again, but still, it was fun. It doesn't send out white light, as that wouldn't work very well...the TV picture would interfere, let alone all the ambient light around!
And we know its the Wii-mote that registers it. We've known that for ages, ever since the first person to look at a sensor bar plug noticed it was incapable of sending data (its just a power socket)
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:35 am
Then my damn brother lied...but candles send out IR waves? W/e I don't really care as long as it works fro me I'm satisfied.
W/e
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Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:21 am
M1A1_Gorillaz Then my damn brother lied...but candles send out IR waves? W/e I don't really care as long as it works fro me I'm satisfied. W/e Candles send out ALL sorts...but IR is just another type of light after all.
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Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:53 pm
that's hella sweet! i droped my sensor bar and it wasn't working very well and i put the candles up hella awasome
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 3:22 am
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 12:49 pm
Wow thats really cool....
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:13 pm
wtf'in me are u fudging serious ineed to try it...if it work u are scary.o and how the hell does it do that.....wait do they need to b scented candles lol jk
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Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 8:14 am
IR is a higher part of the light spectrum that we can't see without technological aides.
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Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 7:04 am
There's a YouTube video of two guys playing WiiSports like this.
I haven't tried it myself, but I'm at home and sick today so I might just do this.
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Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 10:08 am
whats the link to that video?
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