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The basic operation of a laser tag system can be found on Wikipedia.

“Laser tag is a team or individual sport or recreational activity where players attempt to score points by tagging targets, typically with a hand-held infrared-emitting targeting device.”

The two basic parts of a laser tag system are (1) a shooting element and (2) a target.

The laser tag system is a simple optical communications link. The shooting element is a modulated LED and the target is a photodetector.

Basic operation of the shooting element:

  • Send a known signal

Basic operation of the target:

  • Determine if the target was hit by a shooting element (i.e. the signal is not just noise)
  • Determine the player by interpreting the signal sent
laser_tag_overview.1423177355.txt.gz · Last modified: 2015/02/05 16:02 by schultz