DIY Wii Balance Board

by Christopher Grant { Aug 14th 2007 at 10:30PM }

Every week, sister-site Wii Fanboy's weekly REVOLUTIONARY feature takes on the exciting task of exploring the possibilities of the Wii. This week, they made up their own Wii Balance Board using nothing more than some tennis balls, some blue, some plastic trays, some foam strips, grip tape, and of course, a Wiimote.

All that's left is to find a PC game to test it out with – snowboarding sim Stoked Rider does the trick nicely – and whip up a script in GlovePIE to convert the Wiimote actions into input. Throw everything together and, voila, you can be balancing like a pro. Now, let's try to play Resident Evil 4 with it ...

Tags: BalanceBoard, Revolutionary, WiiFit

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Crazylink @ Aug 14th 2007 10:38PM

Stoked Rider is a snowboarding game.

Christopher Grant @ Aug 15th 2007 8:29AM

Whoops! My video game addled brain read one for the other accidentally. It's been fixed.

Nushio @ Aug 14th 2007 10:47PM

Where can I get some Blue, and would that work on Brain Age?

That said, the Balance Board came out way better than I imagined. 'Grats to Mike.

Crono @ Aug 15th 2007 9:00AM

Seriously, everybody needs a little blue. What store did they get that from?

fred the duck @ Aug 14th 2007 11:08PM

looks like it works well

Slvrgun @ Aug 14th 2007 11:37PM

Wow an accessory for a console you can barely even find in most stores.

hvnlysoldr @ Aug 14th 2007 11:47PM

Yes Stoked Rider is a snowboarding game. You can see the snow as he's riding. I also never knew you could use Blue as an object before, although I guess you can taste purple.

megapenguinx @ Aug 15th 2007 1:33AM

I prefer the taste of green

ThornedVenom @ Aug 15th 2007 12:23PM

I think Crazylink pointed out that it was a snowboarding game because the player is playing it as if it were a skiing game. ;)

In other words, he needed to make a board which looked like a snowboard or something.

Kye @ Aug 15th 2007 9:10AM

research says that people who get senses inter-mingled (or overlapped) are usually quite smart.

e.g. Smelling and tasting (things that remind you of) coulours, or hearing how something feels.

I like the taste of red best.

Ive also noticed that everyon I know who likes drum n bass music is good at maths.