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The Wii Disassembled
mrmcgeeber writes "There are two ways to take apart the Wii. The first, as demonstrated by Popular Science, involves breaking the Wii open due to a lack of tools. The second method is a more formal Wii disassembly guide, which is provided by InformIT.com. Either way, you can see some detailed pictures of the internals of the Wii and how the parts are laid out. The InformIT.com version also includes an eight minute teardown video."
FP. Take that you GNAA fuckers. I hereby announce the birth of the FP alliance of America.
What are you going to say to someone who waited a cold night in line, didn't get one and sees you disrespecting the Wii? You insensitive clods!
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No disassemble! No disassemble!
smashmywii.com!
Its full of craptastic goodness.
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The fact you can disassemble the Wii is news how exactly?
So many choices, so little tolerance.
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Bob: I'm fascinated by my wee! I played with it all night!
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Wheres the hammers method?
I have my wii coming on december the 8th (UK)
have been waiting for this so i can work out how to Mod my console, looks to be nice and simple
It's made in Canada!
So? SO? I don't know about you, but I consider this news. I mean, the Wii is new isn't it?
Really, it's not like this article title was misleading. If seeing the Wii disassembled isn't news to you, then why on earth would you click the link, let alone post in the discussion?
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I would be more interesed to see a controller opened. Does it really have a video camera inside ? can we get the specs / reference of it ?
The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool.
Sooner or later, all sought after consumer electronics have a nerd porn thread where the device gets undressed down to the bare components. This is /. where nerds congregate so you should not only accept these types of stories but also expect them.
Heck, It'd be news if there wasn't someone taking apart the Wii.
The term "nerd porn" taken from the Apple Product Cycle although it may have originated elsewhere.
http://www.informit.com/content/images/art_fogie_i nsidewii/elementLinks/wiifig26.jpg
Image from inside the motion sensor, i now see why it was codenamed the "revolution", i can imagine it took them many many years of research and development to come up with that!
It's not a sensor array, it's just LEDs emitting infrared light.
The sensor is in the Wiimote.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTGSkYRDpWY
I hate the way some companies use oddball screws to try and stop people taking the device apart. It doesn't work - those who really want to take it apart will find the tool or improvise, and it merely annoys them. Those who don't want to take it apart wouldn't even if you used screws that could be undone with the tip of a steak knife.
It's like a wall-wart I have at home - I want to get the case off it to salvage the transformer for other projects, yet they use these nasty 'interrupted flathead' screws (two slots opposite each other on the screw head) which now means I have to buy or make a special tool *just* for this one device. Grrr. Eventually the tool will become common (just like Torx bits have become common, that was the last shenanigan they tried to stop people from taking something apart) and they will change to another infuriatingly uncommon screw type.
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We know it's you Bender !
Go advertise your nasty peep-show elsewhere !
I haven't seen a hardware design this well thought of since the gamecube, everything is nice and tightly packed, and not generating heat so much that the compactness kills it. one thing I find interesting is the neatnesss of the board, not that many visible traces. accustomed to so many lines that the mind gets boggled and yet the mobo looks so clean, even though there's so much attached. are they just hiding them or did they come up with something to reduce complexity?
It's made in Canada!
... Canadian chips have better cooling.
Of course
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And for those who don't have time, motherboards photos :
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I really feel sorry for the thing. Poor Wii. :(
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Okay, I've got a hammer and can do this myself! Now, a story would be, "Wii hacked: secret 'hot Ambrosia' code in Zelda unlocked".
On a side note, is anyone over the age of 13 excited about the Wii? No offense intended, I'd really like an affordable console, but I really don't want to play Zelda for the rest of my life.
I enjoyed many an hour as a child taking electronics apart and putting them back together
I also enjoyed many an hour taking things apart...but I wasn't terribly good at putting them back together. It was pretty clear I'd never become an engineer. So now I'm a system administrator.
volatile wo>rld of ocpen platform,
He refers to it as a DVD drive, is this correct or has he got mixed up?
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A circuit board and an optical drive. Wop de do.
Philip
Signatures are broken
Does the classic controller work with Gamecube games? Or do you need both a classic and a Gamecube controller for the various Virtual Console and Gamecube games?
Here's a comprehensive video from EETimes (c/o Semiconductor Insights):
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http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jh
They take apart the controller too.
Uh... does anybody have a link to the reassembly page?
Wii?
does it run Linux?
I actually view the internal parts of geeky electronics like seeing a woman without her clothes. An exceptionally well designed electronic goody is much like a exceptionally well put together lady undressed. On the other hand, some hacked together POC is like that 300lb tub naked ... eeewwwwww Put your clothes back on!
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If gramps was still around to day, he'd slap me upside the head & say "There boy, let's see your fancy video game console do that !".
Then I'd wait untill he went to sleep and superglue the controller to the side of his head.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
If you ask me this is the best way:
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fuvoo: watch something
You can't judge a book by it's cover, or in this case, internals. But the PS3 certainly looks a lot more impressive inside than the Wii.
Amen to that, brother. Roland is one of the first people I foe'd due to the poor SnR. He's a fucking advertisement machine. This comment and the parent may deserve offtopic mods, but they're definitely not trolls. Roland is the only guy I know of who makes Jon Katz look informative and insightful. Oh wait, Dvorak is another one :P
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PCBs tend to have multiple layers, typically multiples of two. Often they are made by starting off with a sheet of PCB with copper on both sides, which is etched. Another layer of resin is added to each side, followed by copper plating of both sides, which is then itself etched. Wash, rinse, repeat (literally).
PC motherboards most certainly have multiple layers, often twelve to sixteen. This is so that the extremely large number of components required can be placed very close together and yet still be routed successfully (routing is the process whereby traces are laid out to connect components together). Indeed, on some motherboards I've seen none of the routing other than the most trivial is on the outermost layers of the PCB.
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I couldn't get the Wii to connect to my WAP until I switched from G-only to mixed mode. I think the Wii only does 802.11b (which is what the DS maxes out at). Neither the manual or Nintendo's website specifically say 802.11G support. It sucks switching back to mixed mode since G-only gives me a more consistent throughput on my other components in the house. Anybody else able to use Wii's WiFi in G-only mode?
Informit.com:
I think I know why your Wii is broke!
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That is all.
It's not a sensor array, it's just LEDs emitting infrared light.
The sensor is in the Wiimote.
Yeah, that's pretty funny he made that mistake. Even a casual glance at his picture of the the sensor bar shows that it's just LED's. First, there are the LED's. Plus, there just aren't enough traces/wires for their to be any meaningful sensor data someing out of it. The wiimote picture of the "LED emitter" reveals just the opposite. It looks nothing like an LED, and has something like 10 leads going into it.
Please wake me up when Leisure Suit Larry is released for the Wii, 'cuz that new controller offers real possibilities...
First hit on google: a kit of 100 obscure bits, including a triwing bit: http://www.action-electronics.com/ezpower.htm