Fed up with the stock skids? not impressed by the weight of extreme skids? I wasn't so I made my own. I made them out of polymorph to give it extra "bounce" on those hard impacts. It features stronger joints to the heli frame - the weak point on the stock skids.

Update - added a battery mount, pics to follow later :D

Do you have trouble flying nose in? keep getting your left and the heli's right confused? well this could be the mod for you. I found by putting different coloured LED's on the skids, and altering my thinking to think, red side up etc it was much easier to work out how to fly nose in. It also has the added bonus of being able to see your Helicopter at night!

Nintendo's Wii has a great controller which has both accellorometers and pointing functionality for fun with motion, and it also communicates using the Bluetooth protocol. This means that it is possible to hook the Wiimote up to a Bluetooth enabled PC which has all sorts of possible applications. For example, it is possible to use the Wiimote as a mouse in Windows, or use it in games. To detect where it is pointing, the Wiimote uses the Wii's "Sensor bar", which is actually an array of infrared LEDs which the Wiimote uses as a position reference. To make it nice and easy for me to use my Wiimote on my computer I decided to construct a USB sensor bar for my PC. Here are the instructions for how you can make one too!

Some PC power supplies do not come with a connector known as the "P4 power connector" designed for Pentium 4 or above motherboards. This connector is now commonly found on most new motherboards and is normally required to be connected. If you don't have a P4 power connector on your power supply and you have parts or spares from other power supplies or projects around then it should be relatively easy to make an adapter which plugs into a "Molex" power connector and provides the P4 power.

This guide explains how you can mount a Gamecube memory card inside your Wii, so that it does not need to be plugged in or visible from the outside of the console. Basic soldering experience is required to attempt this mod, and you will need to take apart your console almost completely, voiding your warranty.