I've found many posts from others who, having recently visited Universal Orlando, are trying to make their "interactive" Harry Potter wands work at home. I have no programming experience, but believe that I can use an IR flashlight to project the IR beam, have it reflect off the tip of the wand, and the Wiimote receive the movements. Then, use the Arduino board to pick up these movements and translate them into actual movements (turning a servo motor, moving a joystick, etc.). I found this code (GitHub - bigokro/wiiwandz: A project for tracking infrared inputs from a Wiimote, and triggering a signal when specific movements are detected) from Timothy High, but it seems to be in C# and for PCs. I'm using Arduino and a Mac. I bought a small starter kit (including Arduino UNO board, IR receiver, breadboard, etc.), watched a few hours of Arduino tutorials on YouTube, so I have some basic hardware and super elementary Arduino practice. I'm looking for help with the actual code for Arduino that might do this. I do NOT want to open up the Wiimote - just use it as is as the IR receiver and connect to the computer via Bluetooth. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Let me know if my question doesn't make sense. Any Harry Potter fans in the crowd?!? 