Wireless IR-Target for Paintball
First i wanted to build an laser tag game based on the guns i normally use for
paintball playing. But after some minutes of planning i skipped the idea, and
just built an very bright infrared transmitter and a lens into an old barrel.
After i built the target it came to me that you may want to shoot at the
target from distances greater than 4 meters, so i removed the cabling,
added some ultra-primitive communication protocol via infrared (on a different
carrier the gun is shooting of course), hooked it to my pc to see how accurate
my shot was (it only plots a red ring, because i can only extract distance from
middle and not directional information). And after some nights of shooting-fun
with my friends i also added the little lcd screen for a more party-friendly
quake-ish look.
The eletronics behind the target.
Basically only an infrared-receiver, some drivers, a 16F88 PIC Controller and batteries.
And of course some tricky software :)
The target.
The target (zoomed in).
Aiming for it. You can see the score-lcd (left) and the barrel with the infrared-transmitter.
A little brighter so you can see where that the screen is working.
The screen is about 10 years old, and the backlight is nearly dead. Thus i had
to brighten up this picture heavily.
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Comments
[ jeff | 27.08.05 18:49 ]cool, but... germans with guns and too much time on their hands.
[ Ryan Metcalf | 24.09.05 19:57 ]Is amazing
just amazing
[ dan | 13.10.05 21:48 ]cool check out predator games. they have a new ir barrel
[ mnt | the codeninja, 18.12.06 10:38 ]I replaced the backlight with some ultra bright LEDs. Fantastic, but some days after this the german government decided to stop broadcasting terrestrial analogue TV. Fuck.
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