The Wii sensor bar is one of those essential things that modders can't help but tinker with. One Wii fan has turned an old remote control for a television into a Wii sensor bar.

If you’re not familiar, the Wii remotes have an infrared camera in the tip that sense two IR LEDs in the sensor bar that resides above or below your television.

The video demonstrates that the Wii ‘sensor bar’ is just an array of IR leds. The actual sensor is in the remote control – which probably sends data to the Wii via RF.

By moving the infrared sensor bar that the Wiimote uses to track movement and placing the Wii remote at the base of the display, Lee is able to recreate the same basic effect of complex (and ...

The Wii remote's accelerometer-based motion control works with or without the sensor bar. You can play games like Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam and you won't need a sensor bar to do it. But for titles ...

Apparently the Wii sensor bar is actually a transmitter for a dual IR signal that gets triangulated by the Wii remote, not a receiver for a signal that comes from the remote.