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  • Teamslayer76
    I want my Sig back
    • Jul 2004
    • 480

    #1

    Bluetooth in paintball.

    I was browsing the Face-Full website and noticed this large banner advertising a new technology in markers. It says Bluetooth, or the wireless format. I wonder what it could be? Bluetooth from gun to hopper? It also shows a picture of the new Angle with what looks to be a antenna.

    Check it out www.face-full.com

    Discuss.
    I'll have to take it out to dinner and a movie first. Will it go see AVP? - Halliday On "Will you date my valve?"
  • Toll
    Registered User
    • Jun 2005
    • 758

    #2
    If it works that'd be a neat little invention. Never have a misfeed/etc...Have people beam their settings to eachother...All sorts of fun stuff.

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    • warbeak2099
      That is my foot!
      • Jan 2004
      • 4447

      #3
      No, the Bluetooth Angels are able to be messed with by people off of the field. A coach could change his players' settings and such from the sidelines. It's not a good idea nor is it safe.
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      • Teamslayer76
        I want my Sig back
        • Jul 2004
        • 480

        #4
        There could be a replacement for updating software! No more wires and junk do it the bluetooth way! Lots of things could be done. I think it's gona be hoppers, like the intellifeed only wireless.
        I'll have to take it out to dinner and a movie first. Will it go see AVP? - Halliday On "Will you date my valve?"

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        • onedude36
          Registered User
          • Feb 2005
          • 943

          #5
          Originally posted by warbeak2099
          No, the Bluetooth Angels are able to be messed with by people off of the field. A coach could change his players' settings and such from the sidelines. It's not a good idea nor is it safe.
          Agreed.

          Wasn't This was discussed a long time ago on here, no? I remeber a thread like this.
          "Don't stoned i'm shoot" -someoneiforget

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          • warbeak2099
            That is my foot!
            • Jan 2004
            • 4447

            #6
            It was discussed. That's when it came out that the Angels with Blue Tooth technology featured the ability to control the board's settings from off the field. Now I really never considered ramping as cheating. But this is something that cannot ever be allowed. I don't see any reason that this should become mainstream or acceptable.

            On the other hand however, there may be acceptable uses for this technology. Perhaps and intellifeed system could be devised. The wireless board idea would not work however. I believe the emitters and receptors would be far too large to fit in a grip frame or to connect to small parts such as a micro switch or solenoid. The signals would also get quite criss-crossed in such confined spaces.
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            • Hexis
              Green Mag Freak
              • Sep 2001
              • 2427

              #7
              Originally posted by warbeak2099
              On the other hand however, there may be acceptable uses for this technology. Perhaps and intellifeed system could be devised. The wireless board idea would not work however. I believe the emitters and receptors would be far too large to fit in a grip frame or to connect to small parts such as a micro switch or solenoid. The signals would also get quite criss-crossed in such confined spaces.
              Clearly not familiar with bluetooth huh? BT uses a scattered spread spectrum pattern that's very resiliant to intereferance. The BT chips are tiny. Have you seen the USB BT modules for laptops, all packaged they are still smaller than a thumbnail. The actual BT chip inside is very small. I think the real issue would be the problems with security and lack of a real interface to correctly pair devices that would cause all kinds of problems.

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              • jenarelJAM
                Club Coordinator
                • Dec 2004
                • 1611

                #8
                The main problem I'm seeing with wireless paintball guns, is that people might start hacking them from the sidelines.
                you know you play this game too much when the neighbors stop fixing their broken windows...
                :shooting: :cuss:

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                • tyrion2323
                  Euroball=goodness
                  • Dec 2002
                  • 1654

                  #9
                  Originally posted by onedude36
                  Agreed.

                  Wasn't This was discussed a long time ago on here, no? I remeber a thread like this.
                  Yes it was.
                  My AIM Intimidator is better than your Automag. Get over it.
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                  • Teamslayer76
                    I want my Sig back
                    • Jul 2004
                    • 480

                    #10
                    I don't ever remember a topic like this, or a Angel with Bluetooth every coming out. If there was one, I would have purchased it!
                    I'll have to take it out to dinner and a movie first. Will it go see AVP? - Halliday On "Will you date my valve?"

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                    • mobsterboy
                      Mr.StealYoDallara

                      • Aug 2004
                      • 2371

                      #11
                      i think it would be good to have a bluetooth barrel tip to record and send exactly what speed paintball are being fired at and how fast they are shooting at any given second. Also, have a cutoff for ppl who are out, so the minute the ref pushes a button for a given player who's out, or maybe just a transponder for their armband, and if its pulled, the board goes to a "safe mode". Streaming data like this allows for out accuracy, less chances for cheating, more strickt bps ruling and less chances of a dead man getting someone else out on his last stream of paint before going to the dead box
                      now if only TK could start working on something like taht, because if he convinced NPPL, CFOA, NXL, and all the other leagues to use it, he'd be making big bucks. It would be owned by the leagues but rented out by the teams, and the teams would have no time to mess with it, just strap it on, test it and good to go. Comp terminals taking in data and highlighting spikes of bps/fps and disqualifying/point docking teams who do not abide by the rules. It would be an even playing field again. Now only if we could work on wiping...
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                      • Cow hunter
                        300fps=204.54mph
                        • Aug 2005
                        • 1521

                        #12
                        Originally posted by mobsterboy
                        i think it would be good to have a bluetooth barrel tip to record and send exactly what speed paintball are being fired at and how fast they are shooting at any given second. Also, have a cutoff for ppl who are out, so the minute the ref pushes a button for a given player who's out, or maybe just a transponder for their armband, and if its pulled, the board goes to a "safe mode". Streaming data like this allows for out accuracy, less chances for cheating, more strickt bps ruling and less chances of a dead man getting someone else out on his last stream of paint before going to the dead box
                        now if only TK could start working on something like taht, because if he convinced NPPL, CFOA, NXL, and all the other leagues to use it, he'd be making big bucks. It would be owned by the leagues but rented out by the teams, and the teams would have no time to mess with it, just strap it on, test it and good to go. Comp terminals taking in data and highlighting spikes of bps/fps and disqualifying/point docking teams who do not abide by the rules. It would be an even playing field again. Now only if we could work on wiping...
                        the on barrel chrono idea has been tried, and as i remember it didnt work. also, this would mean having a wire down the end of the barrel, and for some who play rough, that wont wok out very well. the bps meter on the other hand, could be done in two ways, sound and "eyes". the sound would be sorta like a goldwave version, and the "eyes" for lack of a better term, would be like a system that counts using some sort of laser that counts bps. this however could be problematic with chops, and the idea of having delicate computerizred parts on the tip of a barrel isnt appealing to me.

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                        • Alpha
                          Support our troops. <3
                          • Nov 2004
                          • 841

                          #13
                          You may be on to something... If a ref sees something, all he has to do is push a button and the player's gun is locked onto safe mode.

                          "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." -JFK

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                          • chemical x
                            Registered User
                            • May 2004
                            • 73

                            #14
                            As a pump player this would be nice for me.

                            Just carry a blue tooth remote and set em down to 1bps.

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                            • UTDragun
                              Tennessee Paintvols
                              • Feb 2005
                              • 1052

                              #15
                              or hack into someones gun and turn dwell to 0

                              or even better, get auto-aim! like in CS
                              embargo backwards = o grab me

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