在我们今天开展业务之前，这里有一点琐事：
Lazer Tag产品线是由Wonders Of Wonders（原始WOW）带给我们的，这是一家由前Atari员工创立的玩具公司。这家热门硬件的初创公司来自加利福尼亚州的弗里蒙特，开始制作“世界上第一个动画谈话玩具”，Teddy Ruxpin。1986年6月，它也推出了1.8亿美元的IPO，不久就引入了Lazer标签。
However, the good times didn’t last too long: after a series of unfortunate events, WoW went bankrupt just 2 years later in 1988. 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!
Thereafter, Tiger Electronics (now a Hasbro subsidiary, hence the NERF branding) licensed the technology from former WoW founders, and manufactured the taggers until 2000. 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.
Enjoy!
External Components
我们要挖掘8个外部组件：
- 激光发射器
- Receiver dome / hit indicator
- Trigger & shield activation button
- 武器导轨
- Accessory rail
- 强度量规和弹药指示器
- Strength switch, power/game type switch
- Ammo core release
- Ammo core (clip)
1.激光发射器
激光发射极实际上只是一个红色（IR），在聚碳酸酯镜头后面引导：
2. Receiver dome/hit indicator
接收器圆顶有4个红色LED和4个IR接收器（因此您可以从各个方向击中）。这是外面的照片：
和内部：
3.扳机和盾牌激活按钮
在大型按钮后面，有类似于在Nintendo控制器我们以前撕毁。当您推上有机硅橡胶垫时，导电丸会在PCB上的两个铜接触区域之间进行短路。
这种类型的开关具有柔和的弹跳点击感觉。他们还比圆顶开关或机智开关要好得多。
这是PCB上的这些开关之一：
解剖开关后，您可以看到有机硅橡胶盖，导电丸和铜垫：
4. Weapon rail
The weapon rail is used to attach the Shot Blast accessory, which features two infrared emitters (double the fire power!), as well as a video game attachment for solo play. It needs quite a few pads (8) to allow for all of these functions.
5.附件轨
附件轨用于连接精确的视线附件，这只是塑料上的十字准线图形。但是，当将视线连接到凤凰LTX的附件轨道上时，它会得到动力，绿灯会反射到十字准线上。
There appears to be 6 pads on the accessory rail PCB. However, when you look closely, the 3 pads on each side are connected with thin copper traces. So the 6 pads are effectively only 2 conductors.
Since it’s only for powering the LED, this makes sense: you only need 2 pads for power and ground. They did this to make the accessory rail PCB look more cohesive with the weapon rail.
6. Strength gauge & ammo indicator
每个指标有5个LED：
这些是矩形LED，直接暴露于外部，以消除另一个光导向的需求。一个塑料支架将PCB隐藏在LED后面。
It’s also kind of interesting to note that the plastic bracket for the LEDs is orange plastic, but painted blue.
So.. either the family mold for orange parts had some leftover space, or the part was molded in orange originally and then the designers didn’t like the assembled result, so they just painted it over. Even the biggest companies scramble to find last minute solutions.
7.力量开关，电源/游戏类型开关
这是带有塑料盖的整洁滑块开关：
8.弹药核心释放
The ammo core release is one of the coolest parts of the gun. It’s triggered by thumb switches on both sides of the tagger, and then the inner mechanism, which is the cool part, involves two internal springs to pop out the “clip.”
这是拇指开关：
这是机制：
在战术上令人满意！
9.杂志
The is just a big light guide. Here’s what it looks like on the outside:
在里面：
内部组件
接下来，内部组件：
- Rumble Pack
- 扬声器
- PCBA
- 接线
1.隐藏的宝藏：隆隆声包
The Rumble Pack makes the “recoil” tactile feedback happen. In essence, it’s a gearbox that uses a small motor’s rotational output to drive a metal weight linearly. This weight rebounds to its original position rapidly thanks to a large, strong spring, and this back and forth motion makes it feel like a recoil.
将其从变速箱中拉出后，我们发现所有有趣的机制都隐藏着：
With the inner mechanism exposed, we also find a gear train + a rack & pinion mechanism:
2.扬声器
扬声器实际上很大，使大声响亮长椅听起来。
它看起来是一个自diap防水扬声器hragm is polypropylene plastic (as opposed to paper, usually black). Considering this is an indoor/outdoor action toy, water resistance is definitely a plus.
3. PCBA
在PCBA上，我们看到了红外接收器以及大量的整孔焊接组件。这是一个非常手动且缓慢的过程，今天没有使用太多 - 现代电子设备可以尽可能多地使用SMT（表面安装技术），因为它快得多。
通常，这是一个非常密集的板，您可以看到没有IC（集成电路）。这件事表明了它的年龄！
4. Wiring
电线通过成对的模制塑料柱路由 - 其中有些是在顶部放热以保持电线的热量：
General comments about construction
There are lots of screws in this thing, all self-tapping except the two that hold the battery door. All peripherals are connected to the main PCBA via through-hole soldering, which is a very manual process and common in electronics assembly from a slightly, well,olderera.
有太多的外围设备，当我们打开这个问题时，这是一个纠结的混乱……
就是这样！在所有古老而又很棒的荣耀中。
您所有的旧金山人都很高兴听到您现在可以在Amazon Prime上订购，并在欢乐时光之前播放Lazer标签。别客气。
