Firearm training system and method of operation supporting programmable settings

A method performed by an electronic control system of a firearm training device that simulates a firearm, the method comprising:

• responsive to actuation of as trigger of the firearm training device, controlling a laser emitter of the firearm training device to emit a laser at a pulse length and/or an emission duration of one or more pulses of the laser defined by the one or more laser settings stored on the electronic control system;
• receiving a command to change a laser setting of the one or more laser settings stored on the electronic control system that defines the pulse length and/or the emission duration of the laser to be emitted by the laser emitter, wherein the command is received as a set of predefined actuations of the trigger as detected by the electronic control system via a trigger sensor;
• and
• updating the laser setting stored on the electronic control system based on the command to vary the pulse length and/or the emission duration of the laser to be emitted by the laser emitter responsive to actuation of the trigger.

A firearm training system, comprising:

• a firearm training device including:
• a device body that takes the form of a simulated firearm;
• a trigger moveably coupled to the device body;
• a trigger sensor mounted to the device body to detect actuation of the trigger;
• a laser emitter mounted to the device body and configured to emit a laser along a path that simulates a firing trajectory of the simulated firearm;
• an electronic control system mounted to the device body and having settings data stored thereon that includes one or more laser settings that defines a pulse length and/or an emission duration of one or more pulses of the laser to be emitted by the laser emitter;
• wherein the electronic control system is configured to:
• responsive to actuation of the trigger as detected via the trigger sensor, control the laser emitter to emit the laser at the pulse length and/or the emission duration defined by the one or more laser settings stored on the electronic control system;
• receive a command to change a laser setting of the one or more laser settings stored on the electronic control system that defines the pulse length and/or the emission duration of the laser to be emitted by the laser emitter;
• and
• update the laser setting stored on the electronic control system based on the command to vary the pulse length and/or the emission duration of the laser to be emitted by the laser emitter responsive to actuation of the trigger as detected via the trigger sensor;
• wherein the electronic control system includes a wireless communications interface;
• wherein the command is received over a wireless communications link via the wireless communications interface from a remote computing system;
• wherein the electronic control system is configured to establish the wireless communications link responsive to a set of one or more predefined actuations of the trigger.