MilesTag - DIY Laser Tag System
This is too cool. I love that someone went to this much trouble. I may have to try to build some of these as a hobby project.
"Many of the functions and capabilities of the MilesTag design were modeled after the MILES 2000 weapon training system currently in use by US Armed Forces. A lot of inspiration and ideas are also drawn from computer- and console-based First Person Shooter games and Role Playing games. Unlike most DIY, consumer and commercial laser tag systems, MilesTag uses a digitally encoded signal that allows differentiation between up to 32 players and 7 teams, and supports a wide range of weapon types, including mines, area-denial and even non-conventional weapons. Damage inflicted by each weapon is scalable..."
found on Boing Boing
Posted by arkwolf at March 10, 2005 02:18 PM | TrackBack