Cool Led Wii Wireless Sensor Bar

Hello Everyone and Thank you for viewing my Instructable ,

Today I would like to so you my latest project , 
The Wii wireless sensor bar , 

the difference  between mine and others is a couple of features that give it that cool custom look ,
 
what it has ,
color changing led's aka RGB led's , they look great at nighttime , 
it glows in the dark , well the letters do anyway ,
it has an two switches to give you an option to have just the sensor or both sensor and Rgb led's ,
It is rechargeable ,
and its all into one slim case , 

so I'm going to show how you to can build your own ,
 

step one .
OK here's a list of things I used , 
Note some of the things here are from broken electronics that I had on hand and the others I had also ,
If you need help on were to find some of these parts feel free to ask ,

2 x Iphone 5 Hard Back Case Cover , this is what I used for the case , these were sent to me by mistake , 
and I don't have a iphone 5 , but there cheap to get if you go to buyincoins.com 0.59 cents each , 
2 x IR led's , 
2 x RGB Led's aka color changing led ,
1 x blue led ,
1 x 470 resistor ,
1 x 1N4007  diode , this is optional , 
2 x switches , 
pcb board ,
wire ,
2 x 2.4 volt rechargeable battery pack , these where taken from a phone , as shown ,
6 volt power adapter and charge controller , this was taken from a phone charge cradle as shown ,
glow in the dark paint , 

Tools 
glue gun ,
soldering gun ,
electric tape ,
epoxy , 

Note somethings I must say , I'm Not in anyway responsible for any damage or injury's that may happen ,
please take caution when using hot elements such as soldering guns / glue guns , 
so be careful have fun and use commonsense  , 
ok let head over to the next step .  

ok lets start with preparing the battery packs , 
two must be come one ,
first thing you need to do is strip both leads on the battery packs ,
then what you need to do is take the positive from one pack and connect it to the ground on the other , as shown .
next solder what you've connected , then take a piece of electric tape and wrap the soldered connections , as shown 
then the next thing you what to do is tape the two battery packs together side by side , as shown 
once this is done you now can place the battery pack in one of the hard case's and use some hot glue to hold it in place ,

​ok on to the next step

ok next thing were going to do is take the other hard case which will be the top and draw two holes for are IR led's , 

Then cut out the holes and hot glue your IR led's in place , 
once done on the other side of your case you should see two holes already there this is were your two switches are going ,
so take your two switches and put the slider through one hole and do the same with the other switch then hot glue in place ,
be careful not to get any glue inside the slider part of the switch , 

​moving on to the next step .

above I have posted a diagram on where to connect the led's to make it a bit easier ,  
first take a piece of wire a solder it to both of your grounds on your IR led's ,
next solder another wire to the positive on both of  the IR led's ,
then solder one wire from one of your switches to the ground on your IR led's as shown , 
then take a piece of pcb board and solder your resistor to the grey end of diode ,
then solder your RGB led's to the pcb  then solder the two positive leads together and then solder the two ground together ,

​ok on to the next step

ok going back to the led's ,

Take a couple of wire's one for your positive a solder it to the positive side of your RGB led's ,
then take the other wire and solder it to the negative side of your RGB led's , 
next take the ground wire and solder it to your second switch ,  

now for the charge controller , 
since the socket for the power adapter is already to go well move on to the led indicator ,
this is were the blue led comes in ,
all you need to do is remove the old red led indicator from the charge controller and solder 470 ohm resistor to the positive ,
then take two wires solder one to the other end of the resistor and the other wire to the ground ,
on the other end of the wires solder the blue led this will be the new indicator , 

ok moving on to the next step

ok were getting close to being finished . 

now take the charge controller and place it in the bottom case in front of your battery pack and hot glue into place ,
next take your pcb board and hot glue it beside the charge controller , 
then take the socket on your charge controller and hot glue it to the open end of the case , 

next take the top part of the case the one with the IR led's and switch and place it beside the other , 
solder the battery packs  positive lead to both the charge controller and both the RGB led's and the IR led's ,
then solder all the grounds take the battery packs ground all the led's ground and the charge controllers and solder them , 

once this is done take you blue led indicator  and place the head of it through the pre-made hole beside of the socket , as shown , 
now that all the connection are made,
take some hot glue and glue each connection so the positive doe's not touch the ground its easier then taping it all ,

now you can hot glue the top half and the bottom half of the case together , 

ok all most done on to the next step

ok  almost done , 

to make sure that your case doesn't fall apart on you take ,
a bit of epoxy and go over the place's you hot glued the case together , be careful not to get any on you ,
once dried its time to add the glow in the dark paint , 
now you can write what you want with the paint , 
me I like the idea of it saying Wii since that is what it was made for , 
once again the paint is optional , 
ok your probably wondering about the ends of the case ,
I chose to leave them open so the components do not over heat ,
battery's and charge controllers have a habit of getting over heated if not vented ,
 so this allows air to flow through and keep it nice-n-cool  

ok on the next step is some info about the wireless Wii bar
 

here's so info you may find handy to know ,

specs ,
 run time is up to 5 hours ,
charge time is between 2 to 4 hours ,

here's a very simple way of telling if your IR led sensor is working .
you look at the sensor though your camera  to see if it on , 
cameras can see the infrared light  that we can't , they both should have a purple like color , 

well that's all folks , 
hope you enjoy the project , 
Thank you for viewing ,