Laser tag

Hello 

I am planning on building a lasar tag set with my arduino. does anyone know what I could use to detect the lasar ( some sort of reciever or cell of some sort) I want to be able to use it when there is light so a photo cell is already out of the picture.

Have you considered …

IR?

solar cells.you want a

solar cells.

you want a target bigger then an led so u can actually hit it, and youll want to
fire the laser at a frequency so the receiver can tell it apart from other light sources.

as for eye damage, a fairly low powered laser should work for this.