a little idea from a labtop

[slade]

Think of the 3rd gen iPods, they have buttons that do not move in any way. I think that would be a good way to do it. No need to track finger movement, just a press.

that and you wont have to worry about the water issue. i found a friends i-pod outside in the pouring rain, totally soaked, and it worked fine.

not legal, really hard to keep rythm with (compared to todays triggers), just not good

what i was going to say.

[InHuman]

Think of the 3rd gen iPods, they have buttons that do not move in any way. I think that would be a good way to do it. No need to track finger movement, just a press.

however, the 3rd gen are heat sensitive, thats how they work. a heat sensitive pad is located under the button, so when it is heated up, it is activated. and also, they do track finger movement: it has a scroll wheel. and a way to have a safety is to use a hold switch like the iPod. when the switch is flipped, the heat pads turn off and no longer register touches. as for tourney legal, place the touch pad on the surface of a trigger that can recess inside the trigger fram making it look like there is no trigger, and run the electronics through the trigger. Then, to make it legal, allow the pad to turn off and the trigger to pop out of the frame.

[Glickman]

however, the 3rd gen are heat sensitive, thats how they work. a heat sensitive pad is located under the button, so when it is heated up, it is activated. and also, they do track finger movement: it has a scroll wheel. and a way to have a safety is to use a hold switch like the iPod. when the switch is flipped, the heat pads turn off and no longer register touches. as for tourney legal, place the touch pad on the surface of a trigger that can recess inside the trigger fram making it look like there is no trigger, and run the electronics through the trigger. Then, to make it legal, allow the pad to turn off and the trigger to pop out of the frame.

in short, for legal:

soft button trigger

[dyefreak315]

I agree with people saying smart parts only cares about money and has no view of future, has anyone noticed that everyone else reproduces their guns ten times better then they make it themselves? They seem to try to cover all their bases and they look like they are running out of ideas, then again, so is angel, and WGP, bob long. Has anyone noticed that all the guns seem to be exactly the same just progressively more expensive? kind of odd isnt it?

[Jaan]

Why even use a pad at all ... just use a light beam. How about allowing all 4 fingers to fire the gun? I'm a pretty fair guitar player and I'd be able to shoot like crazy if that was the case ... although I'd have to use my off (fret) hand. Now that I think about it, if the trigger was shaped like a guitar pick and I held it like that ... aaaaaanywayzzzz ...

Safeties would be easy though, for any sensitive trigger. You could put contact pads on the grips so unless you had your hand wrapped around the trigger frame it wouldn't fire. Hell, you could just have a small transponder installed into the palm of your hand so unless that transponder was within a few millimeters of the grip it wouldn't fire, and it could be programmed to only fire for you. The transponders are the size of a grain of rice, and my dog has one under his skin. I've thought this was a great idea for police officers for years.

I think once you get to that level of sensitivity, then you probably would be better off allowing full auto and enforcing a BPS cap or limiting the amount of paint you can carry.

Labtop *SIGH*

[master_alexander]

labtop or laptop?

lab or lap?

but i have thought this u before, and found a way for it to work, i am 14, and also have a laptop (go us!), and it would be very sweet for one to be made... am too cheap to do it.

[marctooshbro]

maby you can use a mouse pad thing that is sensitive to a magnet or a certan meatal and put the magnet or meatal in a paintball glove so it would only shoot if that paintball glove toched it

you have seen the mouses with no eye or ball i am talking about that

[JoshK]

I just had a breakthrough...what if it was a hybrid like an emag...like here is what I am thinking. Have a trigger, but has the surface be the touchy mouse thing. Then above the trigger there is a little switch, when the switch is turned onto pad, or whatever, it would lock the trigger, and take all motion from the mouse pad. And when it not locked, the board no longer recognizes the mouse part, and instead it works like a regular trigger. I know this wouldn't help not being able to use it in tourny...but you would still have it on there for open play and the such.



The purple part could be the switch, and it could also direct the currents from/to the board from the trigger options. When set into the "in" position for example, it could lock up the trigger like a safety, but that could also switch the board from being connected to the trigger to the mouse thing.

-josh


Edit: Also...personally I can go faster with alittle movement. Like I can go quicker at bouncing a pencil against a table (while holding it loosely above the surface with my fingers), than just hitting the table.

[-=Squid=-]

lol

[Jaan]

Are triggers really that hard to pull these days that you would want to go off and use a touch pad? How sensative do you need it to be?

[Kallahan]

The problem with touch pads is this. It's not when you apply pressure that the switch is triggered, it's when you release it. Also they take a bit of force to activate.

Also, its laptop, not labtop. Just one of those things that drive me nutso.