{"id":161,"date":"2008-04-16T21:43:55","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T04:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/digital-whiteboard-for-under-60-using-a-wii-remote"},"modified":"2016-09-30T22:13:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T05:13:45","slug":"digital-whiteboard-for-under-60-using-a-wii-remote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/digital-whiteboard-for-under-60-using-a-wii-remote","title":{"rendered":"Digital Whiteboard for Under $60 Using a Wii Remote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital whiteboards like the ones made by <a href=\"http:\/\/smarttech.com\/\">Smartboard<\/a> can be very handy in a classroom, but they&#8217;re also heavy on the budget, costing well over $2000. If you already have access to an LCD projector, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~johnny\/projects\/wii\/\">Johnny Chung Lee<\/a> shows you how to make your own interactive whiteboard for under $60 using a Wii remote and a few inexpensive parts from Radio Shack. Everything you need to know is in this amazing video:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wiimote\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5s5EvhHy7eQ?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In summary, you&#8217;ll need the following materials:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A bluetooth enabled computer<\/li>\n<li>An LCD projector<\/li>\n<li>A Wii remote<\/li>\n<li>A homemade LED pen<\/li>\n<li>Johnny Chung Lee&#8217;s free software available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~johnny\/projects\/wii\/\">this page<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t personally tried this yet, since I&#8217;m buried deep in converting our entire school from PCs to Macs, but I hope to try it this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know how it works for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital whiteboards like the ones made by Smartboard can be very handy in a classroom, but they&#8217;re also heavy on the budget, costing well over $2000. If you already have access to an LCD&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[136,137],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-technology","tag-digital-whiteboard","tag-nintendo-wii","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pPveS-2B","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}