That's what these guys did, ripping the Wii's sensor bar apart to find nothing more than a couple of IR transmitters, meaning that the Sensor Bar does very little sensing and most of the Wii's ...

Later the sun went behind a building, and everything was in working order again. So when you get your Wii, don’t play it in the sunlight. Or keep the sensor bar and TV away from the windows.

The official Wii Sensor Bar is also a little weak--the console's manual states that it is most effective when a user is no more than 8 feet away, and it begins to get really jittery beyond 20-feet.

Without the need for candles, IR hacks, PCBs, soldering, or even (visibly) voiding your warranty, you to can hack that Wii sensor bar to make it wireless for $8 (or less).

We took the Duracell wireless Wii sensor bar for a spin to see if it's worth going wireless all together. Setting up the Duracell sensor bar could hardly be any easier.

Having experienced quite a bit of trouble getting the Nintendo Wii remotes to work reliably with his home theater projector, [Sprite_TM] designed his own sensor bar replacement. If you’re not… ...

This clever hack projects infrared dots onto the wall so your Wiimotes work without the Wii IR sensor bar. If you're unfamiliar with the setup of the Wiimote, the design is simple.

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.

So, your Wii sensor bar has slid down the back of your TV for the umpteenth time and you just aren't up for diving into the rats nest of cables this time, maybe this time you should just leave it ...

You couldn't really accuse the Wii of having too many wires – part of it's charm is the simplicity of the back-panel, having just power, A/V out, the connection for the Sensor Bar and the ...

I circled the sensor bar on the picture so you can make it out, but most people don't even know it's there when I show them the Wii. The cable is a good length, but I still wish it was longer.

There has been a little bit of a misconception about the sensor bar for the Wii. The fact it's called the "sensor bar" doesn't help, to start with. In fact, the bar doesn't sense anything, it ...