Erik Anderson Ph.D.

Erik Anderson Ph.D.

Erik is the owner and Chief Architect of Shooter's Technology LLC. He founded the company in 2009. Then, as it is now, the main goal of the company is to turn shooting into a spectator sport. He earned his bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Kentucky, where he was also a member of the Kentucky Rifle team. His doctorate is from Kansas University in Electrical Engineering. He did his post-doctoral work at the University of Southern California.

Five Maintenance Tips When Using Athena

Five Maintenance Tips When Using Athena
New to Athena or new to taking care of an electronic scoring target (EST) range? Here are five tips you can start using today to better take care of your range. Maintenance Mode Going down range to work on your Targets? Your first step should be to put the Targets into maintenance mode. ...
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March 2023 Monthly Virtual Matches are Open

March 2023 Monthly Virtual Matches are Open
New this Month: 3x20 Air Rifle Scopos is expanding our Monthly Virtual Matches to include a 3x20 Air Rifle course of fire. Competitors, good luck! What are the Monthly Virtual Matches? Each month Scopos organizes an ongoing series of Monthly Virtual Matches for both rifle and pistol disciplines. ...
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Results of February's Monthly Virtual Matches

Results of February's Monthly Virtual Matches
We'd like to take a moment to reconignized the top performances from February's Monthly Virtual Matches.Each month we organize a series of monthly virtual matches in six events. They are free to enter for any Orion customer. Three-Position Air Rifle Individual Sporter 3x10: Bethany Shirley from ...
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2000 Athena Targets and Counting

2000 Athena Targets and Counting
This past week Scopos reached a milestone and manufactured our 2000th Athena Target. An important milestone in our commitment to modernize the sport. In my career I have talked to thousands of people who shared with me their desire to make shooting more appealing and to let it grow. I am proud to ...
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Orion Version 2.16.4: Steps Towards Resilience

Orion Version 2.16.4: Steps Towards Resilience
A common theme you will notice the first half of this year is almost all of our updates for Orion and Athena are resilience updates. This means we are improving the software to better handle unexpected events. In this release we emphasized three such unexpected events, power loss, internet loss, ...
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Introduction to Decimal Scoring

This newsletter was first published in September 2019.Many coaches, athletes and spectators may not be familiar with ‘decimal scoring.’ Decimal scoring after all is relatively new to the shooting sports. It is when the scoring rings on a target are further divided down into 10 sub-rings. ...
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Orion Release version 2.16

Orion Release version 2.16
Every software company, with every release, tries to highlight the most impactful feature. If we tried this strategy with this release many of you would be underwhelmed. This is because the big enhancement is not within the feature set of the user interface, but rather the backend that “allows us ...
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Troubleshooting False Positives and False Negatives on Your Athena Target

If your Athena system reports a lot of false positive or false negative shots, lets help get this corrected. A "False Positive" shot (sometimes called a "ghost shot") is a shot that got reported by the Target that didn't really exist. A "False Negative" shot is one where the athlete correctly and ...
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Developing a New Paper Target for Orion

Developing a New Paper Target for Orion
This past year the Civilian Marksmanship Program and Shooter’s Tech teamed up to develop a new paper target for the Orion Scoring System. The newly developed “300m Rifle reduced for 100yd. Target” (commonly called the 100yd. International target) was used in the National Matches over the ...
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An Argument for Decimal Scoring: An EST Perspective

An Argument for Decimal Scoring: An EST Perspective
AbstractThis article seeks to describe the “EST Error Effect” and the consequence it has when scoring in integer versus decimal. The Electronic Scoring Target (EST) Error Effect means that every shot scored by an EST has some small error that comes with it and that these small errors will have ...
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