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LCD TopGun vs. Guncon
Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: sWampy on April 14, 2006, 01:05:04 pm ---I don't think brighter leds will make the guns work closer to the stands, they are for making it work farther back. To make the guns work closer you need to move the leds closer together or put a wide angle lens on the gun.
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Brighter LED's do actually help, although the new set from EMS will not help, because they are actually further apart than the originals.
To solve the distance issues, I'm actually putting together my own LED stands (to be more accurate, they're being built directly into my monitor bezel) Using high power IR LED's that I've just stripped out of a "House Of The Dead 4" Arcade machine that I'm repairing at work.
The LED's are being placed closer together than on the original EMS stands and also right at the edge of the monitor screen top and bottom, not at the sides. I calculte that I should be able to get , approx 2 feet or less from the monitor.
You're mentioning a wide angle lens on the gun is an interesting idea, and one which I'm currently already experimenting with. At the end of the day it just makes the gun think it's further away than it actually is. So it may well work. The difficulty is that it has to be a pretty good optical lens to work properly (for pretty good read expensive). I'm looking at spare lenses used on SEGA Arcade guns to see if they will work.
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
sWampy:
Someone should make a gun that has a camera and some ir led's on it, where you could just put small ir reflectors on the corners of your monitor, or even in a pattern on the monitor. You might could even use some small ir reflective wire forming a grid/cross across the face of the monitor that would be almost invisible to humans, but the camera could spot/track very well.
Lilwolf:
Anyone try taking the LED stand apart and putting them closer together to see how close you could get?
IE, reduce the distance between them in 1/2... Then see if you can get them to work? If it will... Then I wonder if you could get a mirror solution to work. Get one of those mirrors that allow light to go through it. put that at a 45% angle... and have the led's behind the mirror so that you can get nice and close.
Anyway, not sure if it would work, but it would be nice to get a TopGun with a foot distance or so...
But if I have to spend any money/time. I'm just going to get a projector and put it in the back side of the screen.
heemid:
Hey Fozzy any updates on the upgraded LEDs, or reducing the distance. Thanks for any info.