SAMCO DIY Arduino Powered IR Light Gun

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lightgungamer:
Yeah, getting one system setup where you can play everything seems like the best option.
The only thing is that it can be hard to get all the emulators set up perfectly so it all just works. Fiddling around with settings between games can be fun but it does take away from the arcade feel.
I’m hoping the Sinden gun makes it a lot smoother or consistent at least.

I really like this project though as it will give us complete control. Ive got all the parts ordered and I’m even hoping to get into the code once I’ve got it working.

samco:
Hi Guys, loving the chat :)

Yeah, Howards right my Gun simply emulates a mouse so the actual emulator is doing a lot of the work when comes to actually emulating a light gun (which works in quite a different fashion, this video explains it really well youtube.com/watch?v=DzIPGpKo3Ag) there would have to another step in the hardware that would convert the mouse position to this timing based system which is what I assume the Sinden guy is going to implement. The other problem is my gun requires a point on the screen to calibrate to which the old light guns didn't have.

So the SAMCO in it's current state is pretty much emulator only. But who knows is the future maybe it'll evolve, thats the joy of open source :)

lightgungamer:
Hey Sam,
I’ve got all my components ready now so I’m going to start building it soon.

One thing I was wondering though is if it would work with a wii sensor bar? It’s just 2 clusters of ir leds.

Have you tried it?

samco:
Hey man, I actually just bought a cheap aftermarket Wii sensor from AliExpress which has the /|\ /|\ kind of configuration to try out and I was surprised it worked perfectly. Also increases the angle you can use it at however when you jump from the front facing leds to the left/right pointing ones with recalibrating alignment does go out a fair bit. Have fun putting it all together :)

samco:
Hi Guys, this is just a quick update to let you know I've added a new sketch to the GitHub for anyone who wants to add a foot pedal to their Samco. It's really simple just grab any momentary foot switch (I used one that was for a tattoo gun there's heap of these on eBay) and solder it to the broken out Alt pins on the PCB (I knew I broken out an extra pin for a reason :) ). Basically all it does is gives you an extra right mouse button but it's great for dual gun mode in Time Crisis II on PCSX2 and it's just cool to have a foot switch. Attached a couple of images so you can see how it all fits.

Also updated the old code slightly so it releases the mouse in pause mode so you can use your normal mouse again when your Samco's paused.

Cheers.

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