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[BigJP]

After a recent trip to Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine TX the kids (read I) got hooked on the live action RPG MagiQuest. We now own a few wandsand I would like work up some recievers for fun stuff around the house.


After doing a little research I found a site with more information. It looks like these wands use a standard 36KHz ir signal

You Carry the TSOP85238, but this is for 38KHz ir signals. Is it possible to stock the TSOP85236.

Love the site, keep up the good work!

[phurley]

Did you ever have any luck with this project? Over the 4 July break, I took my kids to a MagiQuest location as well. They enjoyed it and I was thinking this would be a great way to get them interested in electronics / microcontrollers / etc. I am a pretty experienced programmer with some embedded / control systems work as well, but am a neophyte with soldering irons and circuit design, so any pointers would be very much appreciated. The link you posted is no longer accessible (at least by me).

Thanks

[Magicjohn]

Did anyone save the file from the website above? I can't get to the file.

Thanks
John

[BigJP]

I did save the file, however it is password protected. I contacted the guys who worked on that project and they are under NDA.

[mpflaga]

years late.
but I have hacked an Arduino to receive and decode the MagiQuest wands. As to trigger things around the house for the kids.
I use the IR Demodulator of 38Khz, it is close enough. I believe I measured it something like 37.5Khz. So either 36K or 38K will pick it up.
It sends 112 changes or 56 bits. Where the duty cycle of either 25%+75% or 50%+50% likely depicts a ZERO or ONE.
The bottom int16 appears to be a loose approximation of the magnitude of the wands wave.
The middle int32 appears to be a unique Wand ID.

https://github.com/mpflaga/Arduino-IRremote

[BigJP]

Very interesting I will have to check this out