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Physical Digital Darts (Wii Darts)

Best Beginner Hack (699 teams)

Cal Hacks 12.0 · 2025

They built a real dart with a motion sensor inside, so you swing your arm like you're actually throwing and the dart flies across a dartboard on screen. It's like building your own Wii controller from scratch.

As a team who values accessible and immersive gaming experiences, we wanted to create a hack that embodied both of these ideas across software, hardware, and design. Taking inspiration from the Nintendo Wii and Switch consoles, we choose to create a Physical Digital Dart which allows the user to perform throwing motions as they would in real life, captures that motion with an accelerometer, and simulates the result on a digital dartboard.

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