Lichtknarre: Unmodified Wii remote as a sight accurate Lightgun using 2/4 LEDs

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Howard_Casto:
Yeah tried both suggestions and they didn't work. I'm already on to the next problem. It turns out the wiimote doesn't use the full 3 volts to power the rumble motor. Since the mosfet modules need at least 3v to work (actually 3.3v but 3v should be within tolerances) it'll light up but the signal isn't strong enough to trigger the higher voltage. Other than using an external avr to trigger the module I can't think of a way to make this work. I'm open to suggestions.

Howard_Casto:
So on a more positive note:

The uzi shell is about perfect. As you can see from the pics the wiimote fits with minimal cutting. The black thing in the front is actually the lens, so yeah that is about perfect as well. The plan is to hack the barrel off and just have the wide-angle lens as the barrel since they are so similar in length and width. The only hiccup is that little rectangular indent on the side of the shell without the wiimote in it. The Shell still closes but it throws the left and right alignment of the wiimote off a bit. I'll just remove some plastic from the shell. The hole from the barrel is just the least bit too large to screw the lens into so what I might do is epoxy a piece of plastic on the inside and drill a new, smaller hole so it'll screw in.

Howard_Casto:
Btw open the images in a new tab. The forum is screwing the aspect ratio up again.

ZTylerDurden717:
I'll be the guinea pig and test 4 point on a 65" from 7 feet away using a set of 4-3 cluster lower power LED strip sold from some gun4ir vendor. Chinese new year and lots of 10 qty for the high power solution would cost the same and will take until March on snail mail. Gun4IR vendor promotes it as high power and high angle but they look like regular ol' bread board LEDs.

Best case scenario, they work fine without using Lichtknarre's "bad LED mode" (too high of latency imo) and folks without much DIY can easily get into the light gun space. Worst case, I sell the strip at half on ebay and wire the LEDs later on.

Side note: the LED strip has a clone on Aliexpress $20 bucks cheaper which makes it even more appealing for prebuilt materials.

ZTylerDurden717:
Separately--a ---smurfing--- tripod to calibrate a light gun? You gen-Xer's already getting the shakes? :laugh2:

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