You just had to do it… yes, you. The gamer community. You’ve truely ruined the magic of the Wii. There I was thinking the wii remote worked by magic and something beyond this universe but infact, its just this ’sensor bar’ sending a signal to the controller.

Since the release of the system on Sunday in America, gamer geeks have been picking away at the hardware discovering how it works and have come to a conclusion about the sensor bar. According to Brian “DoctaBu” Moore, It dosn’t actually send data from the sensor bar to the console itself, the only thing going through the wire is power from the system to power the sensor. So what does it actually do? Well thanks to Moore we now can tell that the Wii remote interprets the LEDs on the sensor bar and so it can tell where abouts it is being pointed in relation to the screen. This data is then, I assume, sent viabluetooth to the console and put into the game so it knows exactly where you are pointing. Kind of reminiscent of how those old light gun games worked.

Check out the post and the video where Moore explains how to make your own wireless homebrew sensor bar for Wii.

Source: 4CR

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