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DIY PC gaming gun

posted Apr 10th 2008 11:59pm by Will O'Brien
filed under: home entertainment hacks, pcs hacks, peripherals hacks

[rustlabs] put together an interesting looking gaming gun for FPS games. He wrote up his build and how to use a webcam to provide gun tracking for games like Half Life 2. He gutted a keyboard to provide the button interface, and infrared LEDs on the gun body are tracked by the cam. Surprisingly, no USB game pads were sacrificed in the build, just a USB keyboard and mouse.

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tagged: fps, games

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Awesome build, I’ve been trying to get my hands on a wiimote (broke college student) to do the same thing.

Posted at 1:51 am on Apr 11th, 2008 by Matt D

lol i have used roborealm in the past 4 many robotics but never 4 gaming ….. y not just use all inferred leds?

Posted at 10:56 am on Apr 11th, 2008 by alex mccown

Nice Hack,I’ll keep your stuff in mind when building my hand-remote thingy someday.

Posted at 11:19 am on Apr 11th, 2008 by Jay

Nice build. Keyboards are handy for all sorts of mods.

Posted at 2:54 pm on Apr 11th, 2008 by BigD145

Don’t forget you could probably use GlovePIE or Freetrack to do the tracking, much simpler:

http://www.free-track.net/

You could even implement 6 degrees of freedom with 2 more LED’s (strafe, move with gun motions)

Posted at 3:31 pm on Apr 11th, 2008 by Miles

Wow good job ! You’ve opened my eyes to a whole new realm of software and it’s uses. Thanks! I will be playing with roborealm for sure!

Posted at 4:49 pm on Apr 11th, 2008 by DigitalMind

It looks a bit Space 1999 ish.

Posted at 12:38 pm on Apr 13th, 2008 by Gary

That’s about the ugliest thing I’ve ever seen… cool idea though

Posted at 9:01 am on Apr 14th, 2008 by srilyk

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