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Over the past few months we have been assembling some of our modules, here are some pics:

Gun module

Player module

Multio I/O board, which is used for medic packs, ammo ...

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The PCB's finally arrived today.

We had 1x weapon, 1x player, 3x sensors, 5x magazines and 1 multi I/O board printed on each 86mm x 109mm sheet. As the PCsB are 1.2mm thick its quite easy to cut the individual boards out.

the weapon board (bottom left) measures 24mm x 69mm for size reference



We plan to make up 2 sets over easter weekend to test it all out.

Well it's finally here!



After about a month of waiting it's actually sitting in my shed and I'm almost ready to start milling. I say almost because I'm still waiting for the 'tooling' to arrive. Tooling refers to the things which actually do the cutting work on the machine. In a mills case it's end mills, fly cutters, collet holders and other strange sounding stuff.

I have had the chance to do some ...

I would like to let everyone know about a DIY laser skirmish system me and my brother have been working on for a while. We are looking for interest from any players/ DIY'ers who would like have a few games with us when its up and running (we live in brisbane)

The system currently supports wireless connection from 'player module' to one or more weapons, eeprom based mag system, fire selector input, digital sounds, pump/bolt action emulation and a fair few other things. We're also ...

Updated 15-03-2010 at 05:09 PM by jader

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Ok I was going to mod the long sleeve lycra shirt but instead decided to leave it as is and have gone the hack on a cheap tshirt instead. All the tshirt really needed was long sleeves to camouflage the arms ( I considered camo paint on the arms or a complete body tattoo), so used two pieces of the scrim and sewed them on as sleeves. After hemming the ends and forming basic cuff I tried it on, quite nice. The scrim material is very breathable, I stood in front of the air conditioner and got a brease ...

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