Awesome project sent in by dave.verlee. An upgraded laser tag set up fit for 2022 with a Halo twist. From Hackaday.io:
I bought a bunch of laser tag guns off ebay for cheap (the tiger electronics Laser Tag Team Ops guns from the early 2000’s) to use with my church’s youth group. We quickly outgrew their capabilities. So began my project to replace the guts of each gun and write my own code.
The main objective was to get custom laser tag gaming on an arduino based platform as cheap as possible. Kids would be able to play pickup games easily at our church. I wanted to add a lot of really useful features and the list just kept on getting longer and longer.
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