Comments on: Duino tag

By: NewHere

NewHere — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:31:27 +0000

I’m new here, but would love to see these weapons output a small electric shock to the “player” when they are “killed” or “shot” just to spice things up a little bit…

By: chad

chad — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:03:15 +0000

what would be really nice would be setting this up as a reverse-ir system. the “targets” put out the ir signal to be received by the “shots”. when you think in reverse, there is so much potential for your arduino/freescale/programmable-ic-of-choice to customize the game.

By: Haku

Haku — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:37:38 +0000

If you were to have the battery pack on your belt instead of inside the lightgun it would free up space and you could have more power. With the extra power & space you could put a reasonably sized solenoid inside to act as a recoil.

I think this is a great idea for re-using light guns, wonder if using a laser instead of an IR LED would help with getting higher accuracy at longer distances. It would also show you where your shot went.

As well as running around shooting each other, if you’ve got nobody to shoot then a bunch of targets that randomly light up & become active would be fun.

By: Sinistrahd

Sinistrahd — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:07:04 +0000

@Jabaruk1 Or was it Robert Asprin’s “Cold Cash War?” In that one the suits froze up in the regions shot, or became completely rigid when a combatant was “killed.” It was right at the start of the book, and the wars were between cors, so Sony being one would be plausible there. I wonder if amazon has the first few pages readable…

nope :( http://www.amazon.com/Cold-Cash-War-Robert-Asprin/dp/0441113826/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258308282&sr=8-1

By: ali

ali — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:35:00 +0000

You could even us the wrist UAV/map to impliment air strikes and such.

By: jcapogna

jcapogna — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:48:31 +0000

Some EE students at my university are doing a laser tag project as their senior design project.

They build their guns around a Freescale microcontroller. They use IR for their guns as well and claim about 80 meter range with the lenses they have to focus the IR beam.

They’re using xBee wireless modules to enable communication. This enables them to get some more advanced games with team member interaction. They also built some wireless “wands” for games like capture the flag.

They’re planning to include some graphical scripting so it can be easily customized to include different types of games.

I’m not sure how far they’ve come. The last time I talked with them, they were a bit behind schedule, but it looks like a neat project.

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:45:05 +0000

@Jabaruk1 like in Ender’s Game?

By: Reuben

Reuben — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:38:15 +0000

To keep the costs down with having a GPS and such for location based play, it might be easier to develop an app for java, android or iphone and use that, although not everyone has phones with this functionality yet.

But an LCD screen for radar, GPS and xBee is going to put the cost up by at least a few hundred, not including power and another few arduinos :) to connect it all.

But if people are serious about spending their money, go for it!

By: Tiak

Tiak — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:24:13 +0000

It’d be awesome to throw some more squad-FPS-like elements into a homebrew lasertag game. different “guns” could have different effective angles, ranges, and firing rates on their LEDs, as well as different ammount of damage for players. Some players could even get “medical kits” of sort to heal other players.

By: monkeyslayer56

monkeyslayer56 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:11:34 +0000

that looks really cool and i could so see that being expanded to have a GPS “radar” shock/virbartion for hits and varios types of weapons including grannades networked into the games network and accelerometer to sense throughing…
ya it miay get a little pricy but it owuld be SOOOOOOOOO cool
o ya and moldle the guns after reall ones :D…

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:24:55 +0000

I found it to be a very cool project.

By: therian

therian — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:24:13 +0000

f it , if people want to use arduino and having ball sack on their gun just f it

By: interdude

interdude — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:24:12 +0000

why not build a gun that fires arduinos at the person. That would be cool.

By: I dont like arduino

I dont like arduino — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:13:48 +0000

With normal uC and not whole arduino stuff it will look more handy.

By: cow_juice

cow_juice — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:51:53 +0000

Another Arduino… just shoot me.