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Create an Interactive Whiteboard for Under $100
July 31, 2009 | Tagged free, interactive, macbook, school, teach, Technology, whiteboard, wii | Leave a Comment
You can turn each of your existing labs or classrooms with ceiling mounted projectors into interactive smartboards? And you can do it for around $55.
Wiimote: $39.76 http://www.walmart.com
Penteractive casing: $8.00 http://penteractive.us
Penteractive IR pen: $9.00 http://penteractive.us
Penteractive also sells the holder for the Wii remote too now.
Sunpak tripod: $29.99 http://www.amazon.com
Wiimote Whiteboard software: free PC
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/
Wiimote Whiteboard software: free Mac
http://www.uweschmidt.org/wiimote-whiteboard
Note for Mac OS X PowerPC (PPC) users: you will have to delete the Wii Remote from your previous devices list in System Preferences->Bluetooth->Devices after each connection (every time you connect a given Wii Remote). Even then, the outgoing connection will still fail every other time. There is some sort of bug relating to HCI devices and Apple’s library. Luckily, it was fixed for the Intel Macs.
I’d like to thank Sharon Eilts for the original information.
Additionally, the original person who figured out how to do this, Johnny Chung Lee, posted a video that shows how it works and how to set it up with a ceiling-mounted projector.
