Play video games with an Arduino-based gun replica

GaryOPA · Jul 7, 2016

Tried of those boring factory controllers for FPS, try out this open-source Arduino-based real gun!

First-Person-Shooters are under attack for being too violent, but now thanks to this open-source Arduino-based project, you can use a real-looking gun to play your famous violent video games!

Arduino devices are great little development boards, and now a open-source project been launched to buried one into a real-looking gun replica to play your violent FPS games instead of using a boring factory controller.

Check out this description of the 'Delta Six Controller' project recently launched on Kickstarter:

If you regularly play both console games and PC games, you'll likely be fully aware that one platform is much, much more suited to games that require you to precisely aim at things. Unfortunately, most console games do not support a full keyboard-and-mouse setup, so often times you're left wishing the right analog stick would stop being so floaty. However, for certain console games, a light gun ends up being the true savior of aiming, but here in 2013, most games don't utilize any sort of peripheral. If you long for the day when you could aim as well on a console as you do on a PC, a new Kickstarter project might be the answer.

The Delta Six controller isn't just a light gun, but an extremely detailed, open-source, Arduino-based gun controller. Not only does the Delta Six ably perform the point-and-shoot duties of a light gun, but adds motion control and regular button-based movement into the mix so you can travel around a map.

The controller also incorporates some sensors and intelligently placed buttons to make you feel like you're operating a real gun. To reload, you tap the gun's clip, rather than press a standard controller's face button. If you want to zoom in, you look down the Delta Six's scope, and an IR sensor detects your presence and will cause the game to zoom. If you want to steady your shot while aiming, you can press a button on the butt of the gun into your shoulder, which will activate a breath-hold feature. In order to swing the camera around, you simply need to twist the gun left or right. Aiming is quite close to a 1:1 ratio.
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So far they raised only $46k of the needed $100k goal, but check out their nerd cool and very sexy launch video, its enough marketing hype to really get you to fork over the needed $159 bucks for your very own Delta Six controller.

NEWS SOURCE #1: Play video games with an open-source Arduino-based gun replica (via) Geek
NEWS SOURCE #2: Delta Six - A new kind of game controller (via) KickStarter

billybob2010 · May 10, 2013

that could be pretty cool

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