Hello,
I am attempting to investigate the feasibility and approach for integrating IR sensors and IR grenades into an indoor Airsoft game. I play at a small indoor facility that only allows spring powered grenades due to city regulations. Since the spring grenades available are fairly terrible (Can't through BBs to be felt, hard to know where it went off, etc) I am looking into designing a system that would integrate something similar to the Recoil Frag Grenade and a lighting system. My current idea is to have an arduino controller for every two rooms or hallways, preferably with at least two or three sensors in each room. The purpose of the multiple sensors in each room is to assist with stray signal getting through the various shooting holes/windows and setting off a sensor on the other side of the play area. The area is 2,200 square feet, decent size for what it is but a bit small. My thought is that with 2-3 sensors per room or hallway would allow me to setup some sort of AND statement along the line of "IF SensorA/B/C AND SensorB/C/A receive input THEN activate LightA" to show that whoever is in the room "died" to the grenade.
Each "room" has a rough plywood framing with no true ceiling and is about ~9 feet tall. There are cross beams so running wires won't be an issue. For the activated lights, I'm thinking either a traditional revolving red light or LED strips that blink red for 5 seconds when given the activation signal.
I've seen some posts regarding multiple IR sensor inputs being a bit finicky and thought I'd post a question to assess feasibility and generally test the wind of how possible/idiotic my idea is before getting deep. This is my first Arduino project and I realize something possibily unique like this might not be the best idea to start with but I'm decently handy and fairly techie so I thought if I could get a good lead I could work my way to what I want.
Thank you for your time and assistance.