{"id":549,"date":"2011-03-20T13:48:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T18:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nootropicdesign.com\/projectlab\/?p=549"},"modified":"2019-07-07T09:18:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T14:18:53","slug":"tv-blaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nootropicdesign.com\/projectlab\/2011\/03\/20\/tv-blaster\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Blaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Difficulty Level = 3<\/em><\/strong>  <a href=\"\/projectlab\/difficulty-levels\/\">[What&#8217;s this?]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"\/ve\">Video Experimenter<\/a> shield gives you new ways to interact with your TV.  How many times did you wish you could blast someone or something on your TV screen?  Now you can!  This project lets you control a laser sight using a Wii nunchuk controller and fire an imaginary laser at the screen by pulling the trigger.  Have fun.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T4ihZelTrh4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"\/><br \/>\nA Wii nunchuk can be connected to your Arduino using the I2C pins (analog pins 4 and 5).  I use a little Wiichuck PCB to make it easy (these are available in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/store\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nootropic design store<\/a> because we sell them for use with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/hackvision\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hackvision<\/a>).  Don&#8217;t connect the Wiichuck PCB directly on the Arduino analog pins 2-5 because analog pin 2 is used by the Video Experimenter.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_624\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nootropicdesign.com\/projectlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tvBlasterCircuit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-624\" src=\"https:\/\/nootropicdesign.com\/projectlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tvBlasterCircuit-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"tvBlasterCircuit-sm\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nootropicdesign.com\/projectlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tvBlasterCircuit-sm.jpg 640w, https:\/\/nootropicdesign.com\/projectlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tvBlasterCircuit-sm-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Connect a nunchuk to your Arduino on analog pins 4 and 5<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"\/><br \/>\nData from the nunchuk is read using the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/nootropicdesign\/hackvision-controllers\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hackvision Controllers library<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The code is in the example &#8220;TVBlaster&#8221; in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/nootropicdesign\/arduino-tvout-ve\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TVout library for Video Experimenter<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Difficulty Level = 3 [What&#8217;s this?] The Video Experimenter shield gives you new ways to interact with your TV. How many times did you wish you could blast someone or something on your TV screen? Now you can! This project lets you control a laser sight using a Wii nunchuk controller and fire an imaginary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arduino","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nootropicdesign.com\/projectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nootropicdesign.com\/projectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nootropicdesign.com\/projectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nootropicdesign.com\/projectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nootropicdesign.com\/projectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/nootropicdesign.com\/projectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2341,"href":"https:\/\/nootropicdesign.com\/projectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/2341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nootropicdesign.com\/projectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nootropicdesign.com\/projectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nootropicdesign.com\/projectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}