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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."

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  1. Re:Bouncing by rickst13 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But what would happen to the bounced back shot if there was a mirror attached to it as well? ;-) Oh, come on mods... how is this not modded redundant?

  2. Screw this kiddie krap by MrChuck · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Discussed this with a buddy who's an ex army "sharpshooter" (that's sniper if he's on the other side).

    My thought was to trigger a taser wired up under your shirt. His was bullets.

    Perhaps rubber bullets. (but the taser thing would work with video games).

    So you get hit, your in a big boatload of pain for a while and fall and thrash on the floor for a while. So what? You wanna "play war" little boys? Then stop pretending that's it's blood and pain free.

    Ok, forget lasers. Use rocks.

    This army recruitment crap of paintball/laser tag/video games is just sick. I'll take my bugs bunny and itchy and scratchy any day than the sanitized faux-violence on the TV and in these "games".

    Wanna play? Join the services. If you lose and you're lucky, you still might have 3 limbs and some of your hearing.

  3. Re:How about.. by cosmol · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Im glad I'm not the only one that thinks carrying loaded firearms to a LAN party is not-cool.

    Kano mentions that he was carrying to protect his computer equipment while en-route to the LAN. Can we assume that he was walking then? I mean, how is someone going to steal the equipment from a moving car?

    So he gets there and multiple people are carrying weapons, and even brandishing them at each other? I can just picture it now, a bunch of young angry teenagers trying to be cool by carrying weapons. Sad really.....