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Creating an Interactive Whiteboard using a Nintendo WiiMote

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Before I begin, let me just say that this IS actually easy. To put things into perspective, I didn’t opt for GCSE Electronics 13 years ago because my soldering skills were so bad. I hadn’t touched another soldering iron again - until last night. Anyone with an ounce of hand-eye coordination will be fine… ;-)

I was fairly gobsmacked when I came across Johnny Chung Lee’s video of how to create an Interactive Whiteboard using a Nintendo WiiMote and infra-red light pen. It came courtesy of a blog post by Mr Platts (inexplicably down at the time of writing - cached version here). The video by Johnny, a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University, is here:

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