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They also take repeated abuse much better than dome switches or tact switches. This type of switch has a soft, bouncing click feel. Trigger & shield activation buttonīehind the large buttons, there are keypad switches similar to those found on the Nintendo controllers we tore down before. When you push on the silicone rubber pad, a conductive pill makes a short circuit between the two copper contact areas on the PCB. Here’s a picture of the outside:Īnd the inside: 3. The receiver dome has 4 red LEDs and 4 IR receivers (so you can get hit from all directions). The laser emitter is actually just an Infrared Red (IR) LED behind a polycarbonate lens: 2.
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You can’t buy these things in stores anymore, but we scoured every dusty corner of the internet (“cough”amazon”cough”) until we found a pair, so we can bring you, our dear readers, this teardown. Thereafter, Tiger Electronics (now a Hasbro subsidiary, hence the NERF branding) licensed the technology from former WoW founders, and manufactured the taggers until 2000. There’s a lesson somewhere in there for all of us: enjoy the spoils of your fortune while you can, because you never know when it’s gonna go south!
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However, the good times didn’t last too long: after a series of unfortunate events, WoW went bankrupt just 2 years later in 1988. It also pulled off a $180 million IPO in June 1986, shortly before introducing Lazer Tag. This hot hardware startup hailed from Fremont, California and got its start making “the world’s first animated talking toy,” Teddy Ruxpin. The Lazer Tag product line was brought to us by Worlds of Wonder (the original WoW), a toy company founded by former Atari employees. Before we get to business today, here’s a little trivia: