For about AUS$11 I have come up with a way to remotely turn on the wiimote from anywhere in the room.

The remote control for the wiimote!

Takes about half an hour to convert. I have set up 4 in the local highschool for the teachers to play with and 4 in my Primary school. This remote control renders the wiimote useless for gaming so therefore deters any student from stealing it. They are held in place on top of the ceiling mounted data projectors with silicon. Once set up, they never need touching. It is fully mains powered and never needs battery replacements.

It is the ULTIMATE set up. So easy and so affordable.

Plugin your laptop, start your bluetooth software, press the remote control button to start the sync process on the wiimote and connect.
A fully operational IWB in less than a minute and you don't have to leave your seat.
LUV IT!

Cheers,
Joe

Hi Boon Jin,
I emailed you a couple of months ago about this when I built my 1st prototype. I've refined the process, steps and tooling and therefore reduced the cost greatly. I've also been in touch with Tino and shown Ben a working prototype during a Skype session. CEO are sending me to the 6th National IWB Conference in Sydney next month - August 20-21. I was planning to take one down for Ben to present at the conference. (I'll get in touch with you soon, Ben.) It is so cool that the wiimote (thanks largely to Boon Jin's calibration software) makes this a rival for any commercial IWB product!

This conversion now gives the wiimote setup a more professional edge that has been needed for it to be taken seriously by the "Tech Police". Best part, it doesn't cost much and is easy for someone with limited soldering skills to do. If you can make a pen then you should be able to do this upgrade.

Unfortunately, being a fulltime teacher doesn't give me much spare time to pursue and implement this on a large scale so selling it doesn't appeal to me.

Cheers,
Joe

Hi Joe,

excellent news! I'm working in a project about this whiteboard and I'm really looking forward to hear about your system.

Regards,

Chema

Just another homemade option is to get a cheap wireless doorbell one that does a single ding (some do double and single by the use of a switch) then you just wire the speaker wires to a relay so when you push the wireless remote it sends a pulse which will push the red sync button via the relay.

It's a simple and cheap alternative and at worse you need 2 AA's to recharge from time to time or u could wire the remote to a usb port so it's powered whenever you wanna sync

Sorry if this has been mentioned already!:
I've got my wiimote on a ceiling mount fixed to the projector pole.
The projector is plugged into a power socket on the ceiling just next to this pole.
 
There's a 2-way adaptor in the power socket, with one plug for the projector.  In the other socket there's a remote control mains switch (now around £12 in the UK, though I've seen them for less).
I've got a 5v usb charger (£4) plugged into the remote-control mains switch.
This is powering the wiimote through a rechargeable battery pack (£5 for 2, I think).  I bypassed the batteries in the battery pack so it's still taking power from the usb charger but routing it through the resistor which was already in the battery pack - this means it doesn't stay running when you switch the usb charger off.

I've used some blu-tack and a small bit of plastic in between the battery pack and the red sync switch to hold the switch permaently down.

Now I can use the mains remote control to turn the wiimote on and off.  Because the sync switch is always down, this puts the wiimote into sync mode when I push the remote power.  So I start Bluesoleil, right click on the wimote link, hit the remote power switch and then click on Connect.  And it connects.

Anyway, hope this is of use to someone - it was the final piece of the jigsaw for me and makes the whole setup work easily.

Here's a cheap and fairly easy way to make a remote control for your wiimote. I've made quite a few for the local schools and my school and no problems as yet. Maybe someone can improve it further. I still use the fishing line connection method too. It's just too cheap too quick and too easy to do and works seamlessly!!

Cheers,
Joe