Some time ago I came across this video here. Scientist Johnny Lee used the Nintendo Wii remote control to create his own virtual white board. Now I’ll be honest when he did this I thought I have got to try this. So being the gracious scientist he is he open sourced the code for connecting the wii to a computer. This has since taken off on the web and turned into a fairly active project. You can check out that project here. I found the mac version of the software and promptly downloaded it. All that was left was to build my IR pen to send the signals to the remote. So that adventure started today. Below are the pictures of what I’ve got so far. It is working and I can use it like a white board. I did a little demonstration for some colleagues and had some fun along the way. I haven’t finished the case for it yet to pretty up the packaging but you get the idea. What’s neat about the project is that with less than $100 and even far less than that will a few parts readily available you could have a fully functioning white board for a computer. Forget paying $2000+ for one I would rather build it on my own anyways. By the way the cold heat soldering iron is by far the greatest invention ever. It’s truly amazing. I know there are some die hards out there that will think I’m crazy but I don’t care. If you’re interested in where I got my information from there’s a nicely compiled place here.
