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Arduino Laser Tag Update #1
IR Sensor & 7 Segment Display Initial Testing As part of the prototype for laser tag project, I’ve put together a Universal IR Infrared Receiver TL1838 VS1838B working in conjunction with a 4 digit 7 segment display I brought from Aliexpress. I am working towards building a testing platform to something similar to the schematic I’ve drawn below.…
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Arduino Laser Tag Update #0
For the past few months, my friends and I have been planning to make our own laser tag system that we can play at home. The goal is to make a laser tag system that we can modify and program different game modes. Why are we doing his? We just want to play some laser…
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Project Xtruder Complete
Good news! The Xtruder project is complete and PLA filaments were made. I am in the process of trying out different kinds of plastics. The extruded filament turned out to be to brittle. I will post more details about the project very soon.
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Project Elephant Fish Update 2
In this week I found a problem with the power supply in my electronics set up. Originally, my idea was to power this device with a 3.7V lithium ion battery, but after some testing I found the voltage from the battery to be too low to power my servo motor. The problem stemmed from the…
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Project Elephant Fish Update #1
A lot of progress has been made this week for the haptics project! The workflow for the Arduino IDE has been setup, all of the necessary parts were ordered, and I even got a bit of programming for the servos done. Working with the Arduino IDE again after switching from Eclipse is a bit of a…