Hi Cred Forums

hi Cred Forums

I hooked up a nintendo sensor bar to a usb cable so I can play wii vidya on my computer. The problem is that it is underpowered and it needs more juice from the usb port, is there any way to power up the sensor bar more ?

Plug it into two USB ports

Plug it into one of the back USB ports on your computer. Alternatively you can get a powered hub.

I have a powered hub that plugs into an usb port, it doesn't really help.

plug in into a USB charger

Is it safe to attach another usb cable to the cable that already has one ?

It's the same for some reason, I've no idea.

I don't see why not, I've had commercial devices that do the same thing

Alright, I'm gonna try to kill myself with 5 volts then

It's not the voltage that kills, it's the amperage, which a standard USB port actually delivers enough of to kill

Nigga I'm already sweating as it is, don't make it harder.

I'm testing the contramption on a tablet so I don't fry my fucking pc.

Use two candles. It does the same thing

I already have a sensor bar, I want to make this work.

>I have a powered hub that plugs into an usb port, it doesn't really help.
It may matter a great deal. Rear pc ports often give the most current.

It's fine, you'd need it going across your heart to do anything, you could cut the cable and lick it and I doubt it'd be much different than licking a 9 volt battery

It has been done. I will post results

Is this real? I'm so confused. just fine a way to emit two IR dots. All this crazy shit.

At any rate, if you're tearing it down like that, try it on the 12V molex connectors from your PSU. May burn them out if it's too much voltage, but if they are LEDs (they probably are, I've never taken one apart) they should be fine.

The cables need the be soldered together I think, I will do that after I take a shit.

Stay tuned.

True, but due to skin resistance you would need a lot more voltage to push thru 500 mA yourself

Have no clue why powering 2 shitty IR diodes would require so much work(or require not one but two USB ports' worth of amperage), but godspeed, OP.

Pretty sure there's like 6 or 8 LEDs total but that still shouldn't warrant more than 500mA, should it?

Alright, I've soldered them together but it still flickers the leds at a disappointing 1 meter (not giving enough juice) so I'm going to try what said.

I hope I don't fry my pc

my thoughts too

they're designed for 7.5v

if you use the +12v (yellow) and +5v (red), you'll get 7v, which might do the job

I found a molex slot with some cables, I'm tryin to blanda them up.

Is it bad if I don't have a soldering gun ? I'm just swirling them together like any other electric cable.

just don't cross the streams

with such little current there's nothing dangerous about it

Gonna go on my phone, will return with results.


The deed is done.

This fucking thread. For what purpose?

It didn't work either way, I'm gonna go candle..

Just get a Dolphin Bar you stupid cunt.

>already has a sensor bar
>tells him to buy another
Yeah it's totally not you who's the stupid cunt.

The Dolphin bar isn't just some generic sensor bar replacement, it's a USB powered sensor bar with integrated bluetooth and is designed for use with Dolphin.

Sounds pretty retarded if he's already got a sensor bar and computer with Bluetooth

Not him but it also connects directly to dolphin instead communicating with the OS first.

What?

I mean it skips the bluetooth communicating software of the OS and directly communicates with Dolphin.

It's not retarded because you don't have to hack up a stock sensor bar and you also don't have to worry about the bluetooth stack your dongle is using.

This whole thread being supported here instead of on /diy/ just proves further that the Cred Forums conversion was successful.
Welcome new acne ridden overlords.

It shouldn't need to communicate with dolphin, on/off is the only thing it should receive and it shouldn't send any signal.

The "sensor bar" is nothing but 2 bright IR LED spots (it's like IR LED ------ PLASTIC ----- IR LED).

The sensors are in the Wiimote, the first gen didn't have 3 axis gyros. only 2 axis accelerometers, and it used those two IR LED dots to figure out what the actual fuck you're doing with the Wiimote.

All in all, the "sensor bar" can be replaced with rather simple hardware. 2 bright LED's powered from USB, fuck, even 2 candles will do it.

Stop trying to power that shit via USB, and replace it with something far more simple and save yourself the headaches.

Yeah, batteries would be best since it wouldn't need any wire.

I just bought a sensor bar that plugs into USB. Works well.

It's Bluetooth for wiimotes, silly

Just use two candles. Or two ir lasers. That's all the sensor bar is.