Well, it arrived yesterday. Apparently customs held it for a while to determine the strange contents. I have to agree, a marker with a light on one end and a battery on the other, with a switch, does look suspicious. Whatever the case, my old useless Pentium 3 computer is now a touch screen! As previously mentioned, using a Wiimote, bluetooth and infrared light, you can control the mouse on your computer.

Today and tomorrow, my computer club will project the computer image onto the wall and test the accuracy of the IR pen and Wiimote to determine the feasibility of making a homemade interactive whiteboard.

(Ours is the slick blue expo marker.)

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Well, it seems those dollar store laser pointers are not powerful enough to control our homemade SMARTBoard. (<1 mA)

I'm not an electrician by any means but considered building an IR pen using a schematic diagram found online.

Instead, one has been ordered (100 mA - quite a difference) online from wiiteachers.com. Hopefully it arrives this week!

Will keep you posted on the homemade SMARTBoard!

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