Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Progress!

A couple of things to announce. First of all a HUGE shout out to Dustin "thatdecade" Westaby for coming on board and help out with the Feral IR Sensor PCB design/creation. Thanks to Dustin, were moving our components toward SMD which will allow us to do more with the sensor and hopefully make these faster and in larger quantity - if needed.  I don't know how popular these devices will be, but the working designs are performing wonderfully.  I hope to have several of these on hand for TagFest this year in July.

And a quick word about TagFest. If you've never been, and you're a Lazer Tag enthusiast, you owe it to yourself to attend this event at least once in your lifetime.  I don't know how many more years TagFest will continue.  But this year, July 19-21, there will be three glorious days of continual Lazer Tag action near the great woods of Eugene Oregon.  I'll be there along with Brian Farley (the lead designer of Lazer Tag) and many other great people. Dont' miss out!

Lastly, as promised, here's video of the current design prototype - complete with working buzzer and a new placement on the jack/plug.  Please post your thoughts below here, or in the forums.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm really excited about these, thinking they can be used for more than zombie games - an unarmed V.I.P. could be wearing one in an escort the V.I.P. game, for example!

Jammer said...

Great idea!