Here's how I'm hanging my Wiimote. I bought these little clips at Home Depot for about $5 for a set of four of them. There were a couple of different brands, but they worked exactly the same. The clips have a 1/4 inch screw coming out the bottom. You simply twist the clip onto the T-bar deal that holds the panels on the drop ceiling. To take them off you just twist in the opposite direction - piece of cake!



Here's the Wiimote hanging:




Here's the UPC of the package of clips I bought:


And the front of the package. Suspend-It mounting clips.

Here's the clips out of the package:

Here's a shot of the PVC pipe hanging from the ceiling. I drilled a 1/4 inch hole in a PVC T connector, used a lock washer and nut that screwed onto the 1/4 inch screw that comes out of the bottom of the ceiling clip, then attached a length of PVC pipe so that the Wiimote hangs at the right level.

Another shot of the PVC pipe hanging there. Not sure which you'll see best, so I put two up.

Okay, so I put three pictues of the pipe hanging. :-)

And here's a close up of the clip, clipped onto the T-bar on the ceiling. It just snaps into place and holds very well. We're only looking to hang a pound or so; PVC pipe, connectors and Wiimote, so it doesn't have to be heavy duty.

Here's a close-up of the Wiimote hanging. I used white electrical tape to hold a magnet onto the PVC pipe and another onto the back of the Wiimote. I tried using superglue but it did not hold. The tape doesn't look as nice, but works great. I think in the future I'll do a prettier job of taping it up.

A close-up of the magnets taped to the PVC pipe and Wiimote. Yeah, not pretty, but functional. I used rectangular magnets that I bought at an electronics supply store for 25 cents each. They're surprisingly strong and allow for excellent positioning.

Since I didn't use the glue stuff to permanently stick the short bit of PVC pipe into the T connector, I can rotate it to aim it just right. I stick the short length into the connector but not quite all the way, allowing it to twist when I crank on it. It's a good hold though.

I run the whole thing from a USB Flashdrive, and connect it and the BlueTooth dongle via a little hub. This works pretty well so far, and is portable to show off to other teachers.

If you have any questions, feel free to drop me a line, post a message on the blog, or ....well, those are pretty well your only options.

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Soon we'll have pictures of how we've set up our Wiimote Interactive Whiteboard, how we're hanving the Wiimote from the ceiling without having to run wires, and hopefully some video of how it goes together.