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."

Comments

How about..

[_14k4]

Upgrading to the real thing?

Paintball? ;)

What other sorts of inexpensive things?

[Anonymous Coward]

Exploding blood packs. And lots of them.

Re:What other sorts of inexpensive things?

[The Ultimate Fartkno]

"New, from Ronco... it's Sam Peckinpah brand Laser Tag! Impress your friends! Scare your neighbors! Attract the attention of the Department of Homeland Security! For best results, play on fresh snow."

Obligatory

[Michael Crutcher]

Maybe you should add frickin sharks to your lasers.

Re:Dear Tron Guy

[Neil Blender]

Dear Tron Guy,

Please don't.

Thanks,

The Entire World

Re:Airsoft

[consolidatedbord]

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. :)

Nothing is more interesting than TAZERS!

[Orclover]

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.

Re:I know!

[shannara256]

Ni!

No Need

[travdaddy]

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.

Re:Airsoft

[AugstWest]

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.

What if..

[cbovasso]

you synthesize excited bromide in an argon matrix?

Ive seen it work before. You could probably generate a 6MW beam!

Chris.