Team Chaos Lasertag
A WIP DIY superior Lasertag System with open source and hardware
The project
The goal of this project is to create the world's best Lasertag system
There is a large variety of commercial Lasertag systems available. However, in our opinion, they are all very limited in functionality, re-configurability and/or openness. Therefore, we decided to built our own system, creating an easily extensible, extensively configurable and feature rich system as open source or open hardware.
Below you can find an overview on our system and it's features
The System
The flexible system consists of many components
which provide the following gameplay features (non-exhaustive)
- Gamemodes like Domination, Team Deathmatch or FreeForAll
- Fully configurable tagger types (damage, firerate, magazine size, magazine count, reload time)
- Recording of all game events for later evaluation
- Selection of respawn methods depending on gamemode
- Elimination confirmation via tagger LED
- Acoustic and vibration feedback from player vest and headband
- Gamestatus announcement via mobile app
Impressions
The system
Taggers, vests, headbands and many LEDs.
The hardware
The system is based on more than six printed-circuit-boards (PCBs) featuring power control, audio playback, IR transmission and reception and digital control circuitry. While the player main device features an ESP32, most other standalone boards are controlled by ATMEL Attiny microcontrollers.
The software
Besides firmware for each of the microcontrollers and the main player device, the project features a game managing (web-)server and mobile app providing live scoreboard and feedback as well as an integrated voice communication system.
The development
During the, still on-going, development, many prototypes have been built and extensive testing has been performed.
Links
More information can be found on or more technical gitlab pages or in our various source repositories