The Hemp-Mote

posted Dec 11th 2008 1:06pm by Caleb Kraft
filed under: nintendo hacks, wii hacks

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We’re sure that almost every one of our readers has been wondering why they can’t have a hemp covered Wiimote. Well, [Dhreck] got tired of waiting and made one himself. This isn’t just as simple as covering a Wiimote with hemp chord. Major modifications had to be made to keep it from getting too bulky. [Dhreck] whittled down most of the shell, then re formed it with modeling putty. After sanding that nice and smooth and applying a nice black paint job, he started the painstaking process of wrapping it in hemp. It still works perfectly fine, but can fray if you are too hard on it. So, if you get your hands on some hemp, take it easy on your Wii.

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tagged: hemp, wii, wiimote

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Wow, that’s just plain ugly.

Posted at 1:10 pm on Dec 11th, 2008 by Bryan

Looks funky, but it may actually be a decent way to keep the sweat out of the buttons on your wiimote..

Posted at 1:23 pm on Dec 11th, 2008 by marz

The only people who would actually ant that would get bored and try to smoke it anyway.

Posted at 1:38 pm on Dec 11th, 2008 by stevediraddo

hey dufus (stevediraddo), that kind of hemp isn’t smokeable. you would probably barf your guts out if you tried, it would be like trying to smoke a hairball in a tobacco pipe…disgusting.

Posted at 1:44 pm on Dec 11th, 2008 by mike

Can you smoke it?

Posted at 1:47 pm on Dec 11th, 2008 by P

sounds like youve tried mike, haha

Posted at 1:48 pm on Dec 11th, 2008 by P

go back to the 70’s nixon~ i mean stevediraddo

but i have to agree – its kind of a niche thing…

Posted at 1:57 pm on Dec 11th, 2008 by xrazorwirex

why hemp rocks:

http://environment.about.com/od/greenlivingdesign/a/hemp.htm

Posted at 2:09 pm on Dec 11th, 2008 by xrazorwirex

Hemp Chord eh? So is that Hendrix, or The Beatles?
-Taylor

Posted at 3:31 pm on Dec 11th, 2008 by Taylor Alexander

This would be a good technique to keep in mind if you need to smuggle homemade electronics into paranoid/tyrannical countries. A plastic box with odd switches and blinking lights might attract suspicion, but what about a colorful broach sort of thing, wrapped in yarn or hemp twine. May be just the thing.

Posted at 3:44 pm on Dec 11th, 2008 by Sol

@sol

or a bread board attached to a t shirt? although wrapping it in hemp might make it look like shes gonna go on a greenpeace rally in the middle of the airports runway instead.

Posted at 4:06 pm on Dec 11th, 2008 by roosta

@sol
I’m pretty sure airports have x-ray scanners…

Posted at 3:03 am on Dec 12th, 2008 by dan

@sol

Reminds me of the old math joke:

How do you reduce the chances of someone bringing a bomb onto a plane?

A: You bring one yourself, because the chance of two bombs being on a single plane is less than the chance of one bomb being on a single plane. lol

Posted at 11:36 am on Dec 12th, 2008 by bountyx

I love it when people think you smoke the stalk fiber or the leaves of cannabis. IT’S HEMP, YOU IGNORANT FOOLS. THEY MADE CLOTHES WITH THIS STUFF BEFORE IT WAS ‘ILLEGAL’.

You smoke the flowering part.

Posted at 6:55 pm on Dec 12th, 2008 by aids

Regardless of its lack of smokeability, this is still merely a pathetic extension of ‘pothead engineering’ (i.e.: “dude, I bet I can make a bong out of this”). It is pretty much by definition a complete waste of space, rather like the wasteoids who might think this is somehow a worthy accomplishment, or even worthy of mentioning at all.
Just because somebody glued some crap onto something else doesn’t make it a hack. Don’t debase the name, thats what killed shit like (most recently) steampunk, simple lack of parsing what the hell the term got applied to.

Raise your standards here guys, please. It’s not like there aren’t enough truly worthwhile hacks and projects going on you are going to risk running out of worthy article candidates. No need to stoop to stuff like this crap.

Posted at 11:52 pm on Dec 12th, 2008 by stunmonkey

@stunmonkey

There’s a scale you know- the world isn’t black and white. Not smoking at all is just as bad as smoking too much if you’re going to be a critical douchebag anyway.

Posted at 10:39 am on Dec 13th, 2008 by J

Well, we’ve got people who realize this is pretty stupid and make a (crappy) joke about it, then the hemp-heads come out of the woodwork talking about how hemp is the damn finest thing since sliced bread and is definitely superior to cotton, linen, wool, and synthetics in all tasks. Come on, guys, it’s coarse and it looks ugly. Now, admittedly, you’d be able to grow your marijuana right out in the hemp fields a lot easier than you do now, stomping down farmers’ corn and putting it there or hiding it in the forest…

Posted at 6:22 pm on Dec 18th, 2008 by John

im not a hemp head, but i am a libertarian so obviously i’ll take every opportunity to whack at anything remotely positive towards the ‘war’ on drugs. Its not so much an argument of how awesome hemp is or isn’t, but how stupid and wastefull it is trying to keep it illegal and banned. Watch (download, buy, whatever- its out there) a documentary called “american drug war – the last white hope” http://www.americandrugwar.com/

Posted at 8:36 pm on Dec 18th, 2008 by xrazorwirex

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