Hi Everyone
It has been a while so I thought I would pop in an say Hi. Big thanks to everyone that has supported my project, especially Titch, I promise I haven't bribed him he is just a very passionate Lightgun fan :-)
To answer a few of the questions:
The Kickstarter is to hit minimum order quantities to get the components and PCB SMT assembley at a sensible cost. Components tend to come in reels of 250 minimum. The Kickstarter gets this money up front. I will already be investing myself a significant further amount for the injection moulding.
White tape around the monitor would probably work if the room is lit but wouldn't work if it was dark. If I was going down that route I would probably use some of those cool purple neon strips that people tend to decorate retro systems with.
In the Sinden Lightgun software you can easily adjust the mouse cursor alignment if required. For example when Virtua Cop 3 first worked on CXBX the mouse cursor didn't line up with the game cursor in full screen. So I was easily able to adjust this alignment in my software and play. Luckily Argon eventually fixed this in Demulshooter
I know there are always a lot of concerns about the border but you genuinely don't notice when you are playing. The videos tend to over expose and blur the border so it comes up a lot more noticable than when you are actually using it. The key thing is the game experience, just like with CRT Lightguns you really believe you are shooting the screen, if you are dragging a cursor around or continuously calibrating it is just not the same.
Best regards
Andy