Laser Tag - Transmitting IR

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Hello,

I've worked with arduino before but am by no means an expert! I am currently attempting to build as laser tag style game using IR emitters and receivers. The tutorials and posts I've found all explain how to read existing remotes and re-emit the gathered codes. But this is not what I want to achieve, all I need is that when the trigger is pulled the IR LED emits and the receiver receives and registers it as a shot. The code transmitted is irrelevant.

I basically want to send a beam of IR from the transmitter and be able to receive to trigger a response - please help!

I have been working on this for days and am truly stumped, if some one could explain what I need to do to achieve my goal I would be truly grateful,

Thank you

Dan

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Welcome...

Step 1: read/study the IRremote blog for examples using [IRremote http://www.righto.com/2009/08/multi-protocol-infrared-remote-library.html](http://IRremote http://www.righto.com/2009/08/multi-protocol-infrared-remote-library.html)
Step 2: if you don't succeed with step 1, google 'sb projects IR' - for all you need to know but were afraid to ask :slight_smile:
Step 3: search this forum for many examples
Step 4: If you need long range for laser tag type suystems, the best resource is the 'Miles tag' laertag site/forum. They are very sophisticated & can achieve very long range outdoors using additional optics and more current to drive the IR LED.

Other than that, it would probably help if you explaind the problems you have encountered so far in your efforts - to allow people point out possible mistakes (circuit, code, objectives etc)

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Thank you very much for your response it is appreciated, I shall read the information you have provided and attempted to solve my problem on my own firstly (I think I learn better that way) and if i am stil having trouble then I will re-post with the finer details!