What kind of features would one want on a laser tag system? I can think of a few myself, but I am probably not thinking of all of them, and this seems like an...
I've been doing some research on uC's for the tag boards, and it seems the the Atmel AVR line of uC's will be both the cheapest and most powerful for our...
Has anyone who has used this before (Chris Siefert...) been able to eliminated the idiotic wrapping which is applied to messages due to the in-line ads?...
All lenses are double convex Lens Theory ... For a tag gun, if our magnification is 3x or less, it's a decent ranged weapon, for more than 3x, it's a close...
I've spent a lot of time looking for cheap places to print PCB's, as most places want an obscene amount of money for them. I've found that Futurlec offers...
I've finally nailed down the reason why longe focal distances seem to get longer ranges. Basically, your focal length is proportional to your tolerance for...
Three new members have joined within the last month, but we still haven't heard anything about their projects... Would you like to share a bit about your work...
... Wow, not a bad case. Personally, I'm just working on the guts of a system, and have my schematics almost finished, I just need to work up the cash for...
I'm working on some plans for a couple differant systems. A bunch of people in the area want to do a Star Wars LARP, so I'm working on integrating enough to...
I'm currently planning to set my system up as a set of parallel processors communicating over a bus. I think this is the best compromise for the "ability to ...
... Remember, in the "real world" no two events ever happen at the same time. But within the granularity of the clock cycle of your chip, two things could...
... time. ... Ah, but in this case, two events can happen at the same time. A "fire" event, as seen by a processor involves setting up a carrier wave, and a...
Had a few computer problems and took a while to sort things out. As for the question that was asked of me about meelee weapons, I was looking at using a short...
I've been looking for some low cost storage for my project, as it'd be nice to have an external RAM disk for what I'm doing, but unfortunatly most "good"...
As you can probably tell, I'm in the middle of working out the memory requirements of my system, and I've found a good Flash Memory chip. Jameco #74771 128k x...
Futurlec seems to have quite a number of cheap flash chips, which would make for great flash drives for an embedded project. The boast over 1,000,000 erase...
I've been wanting to add some RAM to my system, to give me a large storage space for information on who hit whom, for statistics at the end of the match (i.e....
I think we can all agree that a display on one of these units is fairly important, and any of us who have been to a laser tag arena know how useful, and...
... Some additions: Digi-key carries a number of inexpensive LCD's as well. Lumex 16x2 STN transflexive w/ yellow/green backlight - 13.36 Lumex 16x2 STN...
Ok, after consulting with some people, reading up on current specifications I've constructed the format I will be using for sending/recieving a tag. First off,...
To date, no one has made their posting requirements for January. As a reminder, new members must post at least two pieces of content during their first month,...
Ok, I've done a lot of leg work lately, and wanted to share the fruits of my labors. First off, I've identified several high power emitters. Most noteable is...
I would really enjoy contributing but I've received only two postings so far over the past month and I still have no idea what topic in regards to the use of...
We had to go to this setup because originally we had a small group of contributors, and a lot of people leeching off of the work. Those actively contributing...
Anyone who has kept up with electronics realizes that the availability of complex IC's has dramatically increased since WoW introduced their first tag sensor....
Hello kyraeric, I do understand the concept of "Lurkers" since they may profit off of the hard work of others who put the time and money into developing new...
... of the ... concepts, ... Design ... ideas ... yours for ... Good point, and well taken. In truth, I have sent feedback in the form of e-mails, which have...
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