DotFisk » Guns http://www.fisk.me.uk/blog A Blog About Water Rockets, Laser tag and many other things Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:06:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Shotguns http://www.fisk.me.uk/blog/2010/04/27/shotguns/ http://www.fisk.me.uk/blog/2010/04/27/shotguns/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:04:13 +0000 Nick http://www.fisk.me.uk/blog/?p=277 I have finally finished work on the two shotguns. I now have a total of 6 hand held guns and the mounted minigun. More details to follow in the future.

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However I have more or less finished one gun now, with another 2 not far behind.

As you can see I’ve painted them with a large red side, this is so they comply to the VCRA (Violent Crime Reduction Act). It sad that we have to do such things, but better safe than sorry. I have also been experimenting with different types of sights and have attached a prototype one to the gun. It seems fairly accurate, I was easily able to aim perfectly from over 100ft. I will be testing some other types of sights in the coming weeks and hope to post a article comparing them.

The last two pictures are of the sensor. It is mounted in a Tic Tac box, which seems to be a pretty good fit. There will eventually be 3 sensors per gun, but I need some more people to eat Tic Tacs first.

Code wise, not much has changed. I have tidied up some of the code and made a few corrections to the parity encoding/decoding which has reduced the number of corrupt virtual bullets. It seems good enough now, with only one being received every 30-60 shots.

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http://www.fisk.me.uk/blog/laser-tag-libre-tag/guns/prototype-gun/

I will update the page in the near future with some more information regarding the gun.

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Reloading and showing burst and single shot modes

Showing the menu system

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Prototype Libre Tag Gun

The exposed circuit at the top of the gun is a sensor, I need to put a RJ45 socket on the gun so that the sensor can be attached properly, but that is a minor task. The only other task is to mount a IR LED and lens into the lens assembly and mount it on the gun.

Below is a short video of it in action:-

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