A long, long time ago (circa 1996), my college roomate Jeff and I reverse
engineered the Worlds of Wonder LaserTag guns and sensors. Using this information,
in addition to help from several key sources (such as Dave Bodger's Lasertag Info), we developed schematics
for a version that was easy to build and yet produced some nice effects.
As it is with all development efforts, the summer we finished this, ToyMax
released the semi-compatible, but far cheaper Laser Challenge
equipment. Oh well. We bought some guns and sensors and ran around campus
shooting each other like deranged Marines for many moons thereafter. Which
was really the goal in the first place.
These files have been abandoned by their creators, who have much better things
to work on - humongous power switching station capacitors (Jeff), or complex
digital designs on FPGAs or PICs (Mike). If I had it to do over again, I'd
probably use a PIC to generate the waveform, and I'd transmit several different
patterns or codes to do different things. But the original goal of these plans
was to make them very simple to build for the amateur, and use ony parts available
from Radio Shack or similar. It currently (to the best of my knowledge) still in
use as a lab in IEE at my alumnus, RPI.
Homebuilt Lasertag:
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