Infrared Pen for Wii
I’ve made my own Infrared Pen for use with a Wii controller; interactive white board a-hoy. Hopefully will use it somehow with Zimmy’s feedback project using Johnny Lee’s interactive white board software. See this post for some cool videos demonstrating it.
For anyone’s reference; I got the infrared LED from Maplin. The part is “High Power Infrared Emitting Diode” – it is rated at around 1.5 volts, so you can just directly connect it to a single AA battery. I then stuffed the whole lot inside a pen casing, with a push-to-make button on the end. Brilliant!
ps I do not sell these pens. If you want one, I suggest making it or if you can’t employ the services of an electrician! :o)
Please can you sell me one of those pens please? I need it urgently that is why i dont have time to make one. Thank You
Can you please sell me one of those pens? I would like to try it out in my classroom.
Sorry I really am not in a position to sell one, primarily because I don’t think that my work would be of sufficient quality.
Maybe it would be worth asking an electrician or somebody who works in some kind of electronics repair shop if they would make one for you?
It really is extremely simple – otherwise I wouldn’t have managed it – mine is constructed without any soldering or more sophisticated than twisting the wires round the end of the batter casing. Try taking a trip to Maplin, get the bits and pieces and give it a go. Total cost should be less than £3. Whats the worst that could happen?
If I can help in any other way let me know, but I’m not going to sell my own shoddy electronics :o)
Joe
hey we are trying to design a better pen so it works with a bigger projection screen .. its for school so any pointers would really help us out
thanks a lot in advance
No need to try to make them any more, some of us have gotten together and now we SELL THEM at http://www.infraredpens.com
Check us out… we are sold out for the next few days, but we will have inventory SHORTLY
how do you double click with the pens is there a button near the top like chung lees like how would you double click because in some videos the click the button switch on to click and then they click it twice to double click i emailed and you guys didnt get back to me yet bu how do you double click with the infered pen
Who do you mean “you guys?” – I’m nothing to do with “IR Pens”.
I haven’t played with the Wii remote for a while, but I don’t remember it being a problem for me…? Its possible that I was only using things that required a single click interface.
If you need to double click for Windows explorer you could change the settings so that launching a program or navigating a folder only requires one click. I’m not certain but I think if you go to the Tools menu in any folder you can get to the option in there.
Good luck.
Hello, I thought I’d post and let you know your page layout is really messed up on the Firefox browser. Seems to work OK in Internet Explorer though. Anyhow keep up the great work.