Wiimote Cintiq

Materials:

1.USB Bluetooth Adapter
2.Momentary Switch
3.Bic Pen stic grip - love it because the led sits perfectly on top
4.USB cable from an old usb mouse -you can use any usb 2.0 cable (most are 2.0), I just ripped it from my old mouse because it stopped working...like most gigaware products I've bought in the past...
5.wiimote
6.tripod - anything works really, as long as you can mount your wii and adjust the angle of elavation. I taped together three acrylic paint tubes, and taped on one of those adjusting combs to lay the wiimote on.
7.solder - diameter 60/40 rosin core
8.wire - 30awg
9.iron - 15 watts is more than enough
10.electrical tape - insulate to prevent short circuits (most useful on the led legs)
11.rotary tool - dremel, craftsman, doesn't matter. Get one with variable speed, and a bit that can soften up the top of the pen. Then go in with your drill bit. This is to fit the momentary switch into the pen of course. Also to make a small hole at the bottom of the pen so that it leads out to power source.
12.ir led - make sure it's infrared frequency and not visible frequency, I got mine from an old tv controller no on used anymore. The brighter, the better - remember, the wiimote has a small webcam in it that needs to be able to pick up this light, if it can't, nothing registers on the pc.
13. Battery - if you're going to make a portable version, just attach the two wires from the led to the positive and negative poles of the batter. This can be done several ways, the most convenient I would say is to get a battery holder. Getting a single 1.5v battery holder is easier since it won't require any resistors and it's easier to replace once it runs out of power.

You can also just spiral the ends of the stripped wires and attach them to either end of each battery using electrical tape, just make sure the contacts are clean, and there's plenty of exposed wire making contact with the tips of the battery, or you'll get a weak and unsteady connection.

Important Links:

http://pinouts.ru/SerialPortsCables/usb_cable_pinout.shtml

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• wiimote
• whiteboard
• homemade
• cintiq
• ir
• led
• pen

[hulksjedi]

Hey brother, it has level of pressure? when you use it?

[metalclay]

Haha, no, this is very simple stuff. There are mods out there that that uses a wacom tablet's innards and imposes them onto an lcd. That has pressure sensitivity, but this doesn't. Its capabilities are limited to those of a mouse.

[metalclay]

masterDJ32,

I just added some links that you might find useful. Check out the first one to see what each wire does.

Basically the red is your positive and your black is your ground. the green and white are data travels that you should just clip and forget about unless you know what you're doing.

Some USB cables will come with two grounds, just hook up the negative to the one with the same girth as the positive.

You can also just do trail and error.

[happykidsgetcandy]

do you think you can make me a video how you get everything because i am having a hard time looking for everything

[metalclay]

happykidsgetcandy,

Everything can be found at radioshack and amazon if you can't order online, any store will do (home depot, sears, staples, etc). The only thing that might be tough to get are the ir leds, but you can just buy a universal remote at the dollar store and rip it apart and grab the ir led.

[ScrewAttackEurope]

Very nice, you've sort of built yourself a tablet PC :D

[catarinacerqueira7]

how much?

[masterDJ32]

make a vid on how to connect the usb (something to do with black and red or somethin`)

[KGBailey7]

woah!!!  XD