I was in my local Home Bargains today and saw a shelf full of WowWee Light Strike Targets, aka laser tag targets, for 29p each (yes 29p each!), so I bought one.
Closer inspection with a screwdriver revealed some useful salvageable parts: a wide angle RGB LED, SMD stereo headphone socket, couple of capacitors, some SMD resistors+transistors, a switch, a small speaker and a 38khz IR receiver. I'm thinking of going back and getting a couple of armfulls of them tomorrow
When switched on it cycles through the four team colours, red, yellow, green, blue, then goes dark and waits for a specific IR sequence which a little Googling revealed this page where someone figured out the codes and timings for the system.
However I'm not sure where to start with trying to get a Picaxe to send the codes (I have a lightgun I rewired ages ago with a Picaxe to send IR I can use on such a target), especially as it requires some precision timing on sending the '0's and '1's, and I'm not so great with understanding 'foreign' code.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Closer inspection with a screwdriver revealed some useful salvageable parts: a wide angle RGB LED, SMD stereo headphone socket, couple of capacitors, some SMD resistors+transistors, a switch, a small speaker and a 38khz IR receiver. I'm thinking of going back and getting a couple of armfulls of them tomorrow
When switched on it cycles through the four team colours, red, yellow, green, blue, then goes dark and waits for a specific IR sequence which a little Googling revealed this page where someone figured out the codes and timings for the system.
However I'm not sure where to start with trying to get a Picaxe to send the codes (I have a lightgun I rewired ages ago with a Picaxe to send IR I can use on such a target), especially as it requires some precision timing on sending the '0's and '1's, and I'm not so great with understanding 'foreign' code.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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