AdamC

Indeed. With the Bluetooth smartphone link, you can have many interesting ways to interact with the environment such as proximity beacons, or grenades, or even something like special powers like a team medic.

It would create some really cool game type options. Like placing the sensors in a core to defend. I'm betting the magnets could also be used as a replacement weight for washers in a slug, although the felt tip with the magnet underneath would create a safety hazard. just imagine if the magnet enticed a sharp bit of metal to stick to the tip and the dart was fired. Not so good. Metallic hitchhikers would be easier to spot on a stock silicone dart tip though.

The sensor covers a large section of the chest and back. The limited coverage would make the game more challenging, I don't know if people would respond well to that or not. There is no chip in the dart. You have to put a small magnet in the tip (there is already a hole in stock darts). The sensor picks up the magnet and records the hit electronically.

It would cost about $0.10 per dart to modify, so modding 300 darts would be about $30 bucks. Worth it in my opinion.

Cost would drive most of us away, and that it's only chest. In the Northeast at least, anything you do that stops dart movement counts as a hit (i.e. hits your blaster, loose article of clothing etc.) I'm still interested in how do you hide a chip in a dart? We have a lot of darts (I bring average 300 to a war) so how do we keep track? And what happens when we lose them?

The magnets I put in the darts are small. About 3mm x 1mm disks. They weight about 2 grams, probably add about 20% to the weight of the dart. I find that my darts fly pretty well after the modification. I can't tell the difference.

I'm sure you've already thought of this, but wouldn't most stock dart shooting blasters have trouble with the magnetized darts (significantly heavier)? Also, while this is cool, you should try putting the magnet in the sensor so it would work with stefans.