Mod your fingers into sensor bars
by JC Fletcher 
{ Nov 12th 2007 at 10:30AM }
Armed with nothing but his hopes and dreams (and a large array of infrared LEDs, and also reflective tape, and let's throw "dreams" in there again), YouTube user Johnny Lee designed a method for using the Wiimote to track his finger movements. Basically, by sticking reflective tape to his fingertips and shining a bunch of infrared light on them, he made his fingers into a moving sensor bar!
The Wii Remote picks up the reflected light and tracks the fingers' motion as if it were Wiimote motion. He then demonstrated some custom PC software that uses this gesture-based interface, manipulating some grids around by pointing at them.
This is super cool, obviously, but it also gives us a weird idea: if this works, then it means that you can set the Wiimote on top of your TV and use the sensor bar as a controller. Except for the motion sensing, and, uh, all the buttons.
[Via Joystiq]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
troy @ Nov 12th 2007 10:41AM
Truly bizarre, and makes you wonder what kind of weird controllers we could see for the Wii in the years to come.
Zack W. @ Nov 12th 2007 10:58AM
Kudos to that Guy!!!! Any idea if people are trying to do "out of the box" things with the other systems? I would guess not, but who knows?
Zack W. @ Nov 12th 2007 11:00AM
Oh, and also....possibility of a Wii POWER GLOVE?!?!?
Lee @ Nov 12th 2007 11:10AM
Zack, that would make boxing so much more tolerable
hvnlysoldr @ Nov 12th 2007 11:37AM
Mike Sylvester should get on this.
Jreg @ Nov 12th 2007 10:07PM
Like they said later on hackaday, no need for intense deadly ir transmitters, just make a small finger ir emitter. (battery, ir LED...)