Firearms
Light Guns
Gun controllers for video games, from the CRT scan-line guns through infrared to today's camera-in-the-barrel designs.
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How to search
sten gun- pages with both words
"sten gun"- the words together, as a phrase
sten OR sterling- either one (
|works too) sten -replica- leave out pages that mention “replica”
Without quotes, the last word also matches longer words that start with it (sten finds Stenophylla), and close word forms count (rifle finds rifles). Tick Exact words to match whole words only.
Whole deep dives are listed first, then the pages inside them.
Live History & Hardware Light guns from the 1930s arcade to today: consoles, home computers, arcades, and how owners modified them. Live
Live Sensing & Aiming How a gun knows where it points: CRT timing, infrared, border tracking, inertial, the maths, and ideas nobody has built yet. Live
Live Recoil & Force Feedback Solenoids, motors, air and moving parts: how a gun controller kicks, and the circuits that drive it. Live
Live Building the Electronics The controls, the open-source firmware and our own fork, and the reference electronics the builds share. Live
Live Power & Connectivity Wall supplies, LiPo and USB-C PD, and the three ways to connect: fully wired, wireless power, fully wireless. Live
Live Platform Support Making one gun work everywhere: PC, Linux and retro distros, MiSTer, original consoles, arcade hardware, handhelds. Live
Live Actual Builds The guns the electronics go into, from a donor MP7 to a printed shell to a machined-aluminium look-alike. Live
Live Law & Licensing Imitation-firearm law for realistic replicas, and the licensing and IP a kit seller has to get right. Live