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For additional reference -- the company manufacturing the gear is BattleStorm: http://www.battlestorm.co.uk/tourequipment.html The Laserforums.com thread is: ...
Brian Farley
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Dec 3, 2007
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Hello all, I'm new here and I'm thinking about making a Tag system for myself. I've got several old Laser Tag sets but they are showing trier age. So, I'm...
Steve Davis
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Hi all, I'm new here but have some questions about the current state of Laser Tag design. I've noticed that all the current DIY designs have the sensors...
Steve Davis
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Dec 20, 2007
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Have ya'll thought about going with a wireless link between the gun and sensors? Low power rf link sets run between $6 to $12. They are addressable and the...
Steve Davis
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... Theres actually been some discussion along these lines over at LaserForums.com recently. The discussion ther centers mainly around establishing a common...
Brian Farley
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Dec 21, 2007
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Okay .. that was a lame subject, but what I am really interested in are comments from other PIC folks... Primarily (software) development tools of preference...
Doug
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Feb 11, 2008
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... I, personally, use PIC Basic Pro. I've never really done anything with anything else, though(PIC-wise), so I can't say whether it's actually any good or...
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It has been a long time since I did anything with PICs (years now), but when I was first learning how to use them I too just used the free assembler from...
Brian Farley
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Feb 15, 2008
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... So far ... I have to agree ... doing code in assembler leaves nothing to chance... it also means more coding tho! ... And that is something I've thought...
Doug
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Feb 16, 2008
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... I don't know about community usage(Other than Mr. Robertson) for PBP, but it supports everything that you mentioned... Let me know if you want anything...
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Feb 16, 2008
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It seems DIY gear builders always have trouble finding 2 things, the sound chips and the LCD displays. With the disappearance from surplus stores of the Wirz...
Brian Farley
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Feb 17, 2008
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... Sorry for the delay ... Yeah, I used some reference / demo code and rewrote over 1/2 of it so it is more portable across the PIC16F family .. the reference...
Doug
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Feb 22, 2008
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Been working with the ISD5100 (5116) and it works and will work, but want something with higher sampling rate or something --ISD has other modules that are up...
Doug
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Mar 18, 2008
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I have purchased a ISD5116 (ISD5100) series chipcorder. I am assuming it is similar to other models and others out here have more experience that I do! I've...
Doug
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The ones my coworker has been using for most of our animatronic prototypes are made by Quadravox, specifically the QV600 series. He uses them as MP3 playback...
Brian Farley
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Mar 19, 2008
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Order and implemented a test circuit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbBnpeAqMCs Thanks for the info... wish the board was a little better priced.. but it...
Doug
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Mar 26, 2008
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Glad I could help! That's quite a horn you have attached to it. I shudder to imagine what you have planned for TagFest... ;)...
Brian Farley
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wrote up a new REV 01 (2nd version) of the data_codesheet (the IR messages sent back and forth between the controller and the way point)... Simplified a few...
Doug
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To the one-and-only TagFerret... Teaser update :P Been busy drawing a state diagram (as in state-machine) and conditions on what changes from one state to...
Doug
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Does anybody have any historical information on the WoW IR protocol and and permutations-enhancements? Only think I can find is ~58kHz modulated carrier (that...
Doug
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While Brian will have the most up to date information on the original protocol, my recollection was the the decoded tone is centered at 1800 Hz. The carrier...
Andrew Hasara
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Strange.. I've seen mentioned in various places a carrier of around 56-58khz. The whole "1800Hz tone" is what previously threw me and now uncertainty about the...
Doug
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No, the information you mentioned is correct, but only when you mention the range. The theoretical carrier from the original circuit was something odd like...
Andrew Hasara
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Found it... http://members5.boardhost.com/lazertag/msg/archive/11230.html Still doesn't answer the my question completely. BLEH! ... LTAG message board. Its...
Doug
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"I would say we all should maintain WoW/ESS modes in our software as a "common ground" position. 57.6 KHz modulated with 1.8KHz squarewave for 48 msec" I will...
Doug
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Some of the other, older TSOP's needed 12-16 pulses for minimum in a noisey emvironment. 16 on works well enough if you are expectint a short singnal and...
Andrew Hasara
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... noisey emvironment. 16 on works well enough if you are expectint a short singnal and measuring start to start. ... hardware choices and programs as...
Doug
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... Correct, that's the WOW signal. As Andy mentioned, WOW and ESS used the same signal but for different durations. ... It works out to about 16 cycles of...
Brian Farley
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May 22, 2008
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... Most IR receivers don't discriminate that well between different carrier frequencies -- they will see off-frequency signals perfectly well if the signal...
Brian Farley
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I know I've asked this before (and possibly even here)... What do you folks *LIKE* for circuit simulation and what do you *USE* (possibly TWO different...
Doug
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