A personal project to create a laser tag game on the Arduino platform.
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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…
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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…
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Arduino Laser Tag Update #2
Software Flow Chart Over the holidays, I started drawing a flow chart diagram for the software portion of the Arduino Laser Tag project. The idea here is to use software polling to detect the trigger and reload buttons instead of using interrupts. I wanted to get around the issue of the interrupts incorrectly detecting…
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Arduino Laser Tag Update #3
Hardware Testing and Refinement One of the issues I encountered with my proposed setup in Update #1 is that the LED segments will periodically dim. This was because I only used one resistor to power all 7 segments (8 including the dot) in parallel. This would work if all LEDs in the…
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Arduino Laser Tag Update #4
PCB Etching and Soldering Components After working on this project for the past couple of days, I was finally able to fit everything neatly onto a printed circuit board. The breadboard is great for testing an idea, but the wires can get a bit messy as the project becomes more complex.…