Capacitive IC Trigger System

[Enorcrove]

[Methylphenidate]

well i think that as we are right now triggers are just about to that point where when you touch them at all they go off. For example i closed the lid on my halo the other day and my emag went off (i know my trigger is prob set a little to sensative)
but if ease of trigger pull is what you are looking to advance i would have to say that investing all that time and energy let alone research dollars would be futile
i maen dont get me wrong something like that would be wicked awsome but its a solution to a problem that doesnt need to be solved. The first example of this that came into my head is JT and their speed loaders you know the collar thing that would fit over your loader so rather than opening the lid of your loader and tube all you had to do was jam it in. well that was jt's simple one handed solution to an already simple one handed operation.
im sorry now im just ranting on about some of this piss poor engineering and design decisions paintball companies have made, i could go on for hours i dont want to get strated
anyways try it if you would like i just think that your solution to the problem isnt worth your or anyones time

[Big_Chops]

i agree with meth my e-mag trigger is as sensitive ad a mouse click. even shorter than that. i can tilt my gun back and my trigger goes off(i need a little adjusting) but neways its a tight idea but i don't think its necessary

[ScatterPlot]

Stuff like this has been brought up before (using IRLED's and photodiodes) and I think it was determined that it's not tourney legal. Other than that yeah its sorta a problem that doesnt need solving.

[nato]

if you are talking about a beam that is broken and the marker is fired then I am all for it! I've been thinking of a triggerless gun for a while now but I really suck with electronics. I'd love to see what you can do.

good luck,

N.A.T.O.

[ScatterPlot]

No, I think he's talking about a circuit that senses when your finger is near it by detecting small changes in capacitance. Its similar to the things for red lights that tell them when a car is there.

[argnot]

If you are trying for a triggerless gun you have a couple options. There are light sensing diodes like the ones that turn on your headlights when it gets dark out and momentary contact switchs. Very small and compact, smaller then the diameter of a pencil. Only a couple of options.

[nato]

MMM, I LIKE THESE OPTIONS! hehe

N.A.T.O.

[ScatterPlot]

Originally posted by argnot
If you are trying for a triggerless gun you have a couple options. There are light sensing diodes like the ones that turn on your headlights when it gets dark out and momentary contact switchs. Very small and compact, smaller then the diameter of a pencil. Only a couple of options.

Actually, there are more than that. There is the capactive thing that he was talking about, there's using a similar inductance measuring thing, there's a magnet in a glove with a HES (which, btw, has been done), and I'm sure there are others. If you wanna get complicated you could have a very sensitive gague on an air supply blowing air out of a hole. There's way more than "just a couple options."

[Branchvillian]

I had this idea about a month back. A beam that's broken by your finger. A problem I found was that there's plenty of things the beam would be broken by, could be dangerous if that wasn't your finger, and it wasn't supposed to be shooting. My E-Mag trigger pull is almost non-existant, so I see no need to change to anything less. At practice, before every game, I would take my gun and shake it above my head, and it would shoot. You can't get much less htan that.

[Athius]

I thought about this a year ago. When i was in the Star Wars shop in MGM studios and i found a toy gun with no trigger but it has this sensor thing and it was very cool.
I was rippin in that toy gun!! LOL

[purplemag]

Here's one... Voice activated? Have a mic attached to the board, and use the word "shoot". As long as you vocalized it, the gun would shoot in the mode you had it in! Shooooooooooooooooooooooooooottttttttttttt

[nato]

or you could make it fully automatic... no difference there.

N.A.T.O.

[Ultimator]

i remember a thread awhile back about a guy who took the trigger off his emag, took the battery out of the trigger, and sewed it into the tip of the finger on his glove. he was able to shoot his emag without a trigger.