If you can’t wait for Nyko to release their wireless sensor bar, and you know you have a bit of handywork skill in you, then you might be interested to read just how to make your own sensor bar, but wireless. No doubt it’ll be cheaper too.

All you need is a perf board, some wires, a bit of soldering, 4 AA batteries, and 4 IR LEDs. Here’s the instructions, with a nice YouTube video at the end explaining what is done:

First, I measured the distance between the middle of the left set of LEDs on the Nintendo sensor bar to the middle of the right set. That came out to be 7 1/2 inches. It wasn’t a perfect measurement, but since the Wiimote triangulates the distance, it’s accurate enough. Soldering wire from the positive side of the battery holder to a switch, the switch to the positive end of one of the IR LEDs, then to the next, to the next, to the next, and then back to the battery terminal, it was easily completed.

Placed on top of my TV showed that it was a success… the Mii plaza, the Wii menus, Wii sports, and Zelda all worked and moved just as well as it had with Nintendo’s stock sensor bar. There is no need for a wireless transmitter or an extension cord. Just unplug Nintendo’s stock bar, put your homebrew wireless Wii sensor bar in place, and you’re good to go.

He makes it sound so simple, and I’m sure it probably is. If you have made your own sensor bar, let us know how it goes and put up some pictures over in the Nintendo Forum!