darksecond/landmine

An open source lasertag project

Landmine

An open source lasertag project.

Most of the documentation right now is in the wiki!

Right now the project is in it's earliest stages and there is very few documentation and even less hard- and software design.

Please submit a pull request or open an issue! You can always contact me with questions and answers.

This project has been licensed under the GPL

landmine's Issues

Implement Interrupts, mission-specific bytecode and IO in VM

Currently the VM has no interrupt implementation, it needs this before we can write usefull programs for it.

It is also missing mission-specific bytecode like IO. This also needs to be figured out!

Design hardware for a zone

Design the hardware for a standard zone.

Decide upon IR format and protocol

There are a number of IR protocols and formats out there. We have to decide which one to use, or write a custom one.

If the guns and zones get a VM it might be useful to keep the IR protocol abstract, so it can be changed on the fly, however this might be too great a burden on the system, so we might want to stick with a 'set' protocol like milestag.

Design hardware for a gun

Design the hardware for a standard gun.

Design hardware for a personal controller

Design the hardware for a personal controller

Figure out VM bytecode format

Currently the VM is just a thought. There is no code and no bytecode format it will use. This should be changed as this will form the heart of the system.

Settle on bus-port

There are several options on how to connect devices together on the bus.

Some of the options:

• USB-B
• XLR
• RJ-45
• Plain pin header

Please do note we are only talking about the physical connectors here, the bus protocol is already decided upon (RS-485).

Figure out if guns need a VM

Do Guns need a VM running on them or will a bunch of settings suffice? What are the up- and downsides?

Design plastic casings for the different hardware devices

We have quite a number of different components that all need their own casing. We need anything from guns casings to a casing for the personal controller.

Figure out if Zones need a VM running on them

Do zones need a VM running on them? Or will a bunch of setting suffice? What are the up- and downsides?

Settle on a ammo clip connector

The ammo clip needs to be hot-swappable. There are several good connections for this, i personally think USB-B is a good option as it's fairly sturdy and 'clicks' in place.

Fill in wiki

Currently the wiki only has the barest of information on it. The wiki should be filled with more and detailed information.

Write a bytecode compiler

Write a byte-code compiler for the PC, this may be as simple or as complicated as deemed necessary.

In the simplest form this will just be a assembler.

In the most complicated form this will be a nice GUI system that is drag-and-drop or something.

Write VM

Write the code for the VM. This needs to be fairly portable and features need to be removable/addable as necessary.