we seriously need a sticky about the dangers of IR light in greenies. just too many people having cheap Chinese ones burning out and looking into the apparent dim light (not sure if thsi guy has might've been caught in time).
yep laptop cards are built around the cpu to use a single heatsink usually. you would find it very hard to upgrade. also theres no way you are gonna get anything decent for $60...
lately DX has really started to annoy me, ill buy something and it will be in stock but then they will send me a message saying it isn't and i have to wait about a month. either that or my item just never gets packaged and sits there weeks until i cancel it.
this is really handy to know, i'm just scared to try it on my batteries (they are pretty old and would probably explode :), came from a laptop). they would probably be several 100 milliohm anyway haha
we need more information on how the wiimote whiteboard application works/picks up the IR. the controllers also dont have a 'infrared camera' but an LDR (light dependent resistor) of some form. it is possible to get an IR laser from a cd player, but yes this would be unnecessarily dangerous as...