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Modding Laser Tag Gear?
digitalsushi writes "With summer here again our thoughts turn to the outdoors, and for two years, my peers and I have tried to find plans online for augmenting our laser tag gear to make it more realistic. We're not engineers, but also figured it can't be that hard to do something with some kind of infrared laser to decrease the beam width. What other sorts of inexpensive things could be added to our gear to make it more interesting? We're using the popular Laser Challenge V2 kits, but any brand at all would be interesting."
What other sorts of inexpensive things could be added to our gear to make it more interesting?
If the sole interest is in making it more interesting, I would suggest attaching mirrors over the electronic targets on your person. This would not only effectively block your opponents shots, but makes them likely to bounce back and hit the attacker.
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Please mod your Tron suit for Laser tag.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
Upgrading to the real thing?
;)
Paintball?
Exploding blood packs. And lots of them.
Apply modules that translate sounds into amplified waves of destruction!
Now, to find a word or phrase which has power....
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Put them all together and make a giant laser. Then proceed to blow up earth with your frickin laser.
Muahahahahahahaha
Maybe you should add frickin sharks to your lasers.
You want to fire at your friends and coworkers with real laser weapons?
stun gun mods that shock the wearer when hit, now thats realism.
Come now, we all know us nerds can't handle pain very well, let alone that of a plastic BB. It's already threatening enough with the possibility of a laser getting in your eyes. :)
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Your laser gun needs a laser targeting system.
1) Cut old laser gun exactly in half (longitudinally)
2) Discard both halves
3) Replace with this.
Nobody'll be the wiser!
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Grab a cheap stungun/cattleprod from the next gunshow, rig it to the relay that activates when the light sensor is tagged. Attach leeds from the stungun to the wearee's body.
Viola, now whenever you get tagged not only are you embarrassed but your jiggling and peeing yourself as well. Fun for the whole family.
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. -Fight Club
Suggestions of wiring eletrodes to the vest to zap players were met with blank stares and hostility. I still think that's the way to go... modify them from "laser tag" to "pain gun tag" :)
Don't you mean Taser Tag?
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My peers and I have tried to find plans online for augmenting our laser tag gear to make it more realistic.
Don't waste time augmenting to make it realistic, just use real guns! Besides, the Stormtroopers showed us that real laser guns are awfully hard to aim.
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The one advatange that laser tag has over things like this is a scoring system.
Of course, if you're a non-competitive type, this isn't an issue, but just thinking about this I can instantly remember being a kid and yelling "You missed me," despite having a little yellow bb lodged in my left eye.
Set your phasers to STUN!
you synthesize excited bromide in an argon matrix?
Ive seen it work before. You could probably generate a 6MW beam!
Chris.
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We used to do this with Miles gear in the army. Who says war can't be fun?
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Paintballings fun (a lot better than laser tag). However for your average player I don't think they'll play by tournement rules. I played laser tag once and the rush is just not the same. you get hit in laser tag you go beep now if you linked up an induction coil the beeper that might be more fun. However in paintballing (tournement syle) if you get hit for a start you're probably going to get a bruse then there's the thought of the other 3 or so balls that are going to hit you straight after the first. Ps if you shoot someone in the balls and the paintball doesn't break you can keep firing until they give up, however when they pick themselves of the ground they might come after you with a big stick (and never do this to a guy who is twice the size of you (I speak from experience)).