Wiimote Hacking!

Hmm .. I took my Wii on a trip to Perth and left the little sensor bar sitting on top of the the TV .. Doh. Now I know that Wii sports does not use the Infra Red sensor, so Powering up my Wii I slipped in the Wii sports, but of course there was no way of selecting the Disc Channel to start the sports games ... Damn.
A quick check of prices in the local shops $30 (Aussie dollars) for a replacement, no way I was going to pay that. OK so I'll get it sent back from Perth to Canberra .. that would take at lest 3 days arrrggghh .... I'll get withdrawal symptoms.

Then I remembered seeing the Johny Lee demo of how the Wii remote can be fooled by a pair of infra red transmitters on a pair of glasses. So its out with the Xmas tree lights .. mask all but 2 of them and arrange them about 20cm apart.



Switch them on point the Wii remote at them and hey presto I can control the cursor on screen & select Wii sports. I was amazed t how well it works. At least it will do until I get back to Perth next month.

Clouds Arches/Vortex ?

I took these cloud images last year, they were all taken over the space of about 30 minutes. There was a very strong wind blowing and some clouds seem to forming in the shape of Arches. It was a really strange phenomena the arches seem to be created then roll across the sky towards me before dissipating.

Below shows the detail of one of the arches.

This image shown more examples taken slightly later.

Here are a couple that were much closer ..... the top one was dissipating.

This shows a broader picture where the arch shape could be seen in a lot of places.