As we learned yesterday, Lazertag is cool and it’s really cool when the Lazertag kit looks really cool. This DIY tag rig, however, looks decidedly uncool but is considerably cheaper and, in a way, cooler than the store-bought version. It uses a toy gun, a micro-controller, and a piezo buzzer to recreate the what I can only describe as the first BBS-punk DIY toy.
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John Biggs is a writer, consultant, programmer, former East Coast Editor and current contributing writer for TechCrunch. He writes mainly about technology, cryptocurrency, security, gadgets, gear, wristwatches, and the internet. After spending his formative years as a programmer, he switched his profession and became a full-time entrepreneur andwriter. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Laptop, PC Upgrade, Surge, Gizmodo, Men’s Health, InSync, Linux Journal, Popular Science, Sync, and he has written a book called Black Hat: Misfits, Criminals, and Scammers in the Internet Age.
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