Cool setup and it appears fast too.

It reminds me off one a similar system i saw a few years back only it detected object movement on the camera ad the gun i believe was an air pellet version of a P90.

I think the idea behind using the gun was that at a later date it could be replaced with a real wapon.

Posted at 3:00 am on May 2nd, 2007 by Apothus

the idea is pretty gay, but the music is cool.

Posted at 3:16 am on May 2nd, 2007 by penske

It’s down already.

Posted at 3:36 am on May 2nd, 2007 by Crash

@1 – Hmm. Its up now.

Posted at 8:24 am on May 2nd, 2007 by Colin Karpfinger

@2 – lol, thanks. Iron Maiden gets me pumped like no other.

Posted at 9:22 am on May 2nd, 2007 by Colin Karpfinger

Hmmm let me think of a number

09F911029D74E35bD84156C5635688C0

Enjoy, use it wisely.

Posted at 9:46 am on May 2nd, 2007 by Ciaran

Nice. And here I was just thinking of constructing a giant AirZooka for the competition. :-P

Posted at 10:16 am on May 2nd, 2007 by plasmonicgrid

This could be amazingly useful in a combat setting, in a very much “the tech we have now is ready” kind of way.

Obviously, we are a few leaps and bounds from anything like an assassin droid, but I was thinking rather you would disperse a number of these robots in a tactical setting and then the soldiers would use lasers to paint targets (coupled with some sort of wireless ident, of course).

Advantages:
(1) Soldiers don’t have to worry about a heavy gun.
(2) Soldiers don’t have to worry about ammunition.
(3) Soldiers can hit a target hidden behind “cover” from a multitude of different angles, even if the target was hidden from view.
(4) Once a target is painted, soldiers can keep under cover or even retreat while the robots continue to lay down fire at the target.
(5) Soldiers can fire multiple directions at once.
….

Posted at 11:45 am on May 2nd, 2007 by sackofcatfood

This is based on the inventgeek turret project.

http://inventgeek.com/Projects/usbairsoftturret/Overview.aspx

Posted at 12:04 pm on May 2nd, 2007 by jason anders

@9:

This is *NOT* based on the inventgeek turret project. In fact I believe I began working on things before that project was released.

The invent geek turret uses a pre-made base from a 40$ product you can buy online. I built mine from the ground up, and am using entirely different code, servos, protocol.

I am using the same gun… only by chance though. probably because its the cheapest electric airsoft gun out there, lol.

Posted at 12:25 pm on May 2nd, 2007 by Colin Karpfinger

i’m going to be using the same gun as well for my defcon bot. i haven’t made nearly as much progress on mine though.

Posted at 5:27 pm on May 2nd, 2007 by Yan

The design looks similar to a project I’ve seen at RIT. Are the designers of this from RIT?

Posted at 5:31 pm on May 2nd, 2007 by an0ther_1

Really impressive! I like it!

Posted at 5:37 pm on May 2nd, 2007 by bking

very cool. in the video its just white on black background. how does it work with different colors?

Posted at 7:49 pm on May 2nd, 2007 by adam

This looks amazing.
I want one. :)

Posted at 10:13 pm on May 2nd, 2007 by Xios117

@12

No, I’m just a lone ranger going to a small school in Wisconsin (UW Eau Claire). I would be interested to see RITs project though, do you have any info?

Posted at 10:28 pm on May 2nd, 2007 by Colin Karpfinger

Reminds me of a cut up airsoft gun literally strapped to a base from something else, oh wait, it is. He didn’t use duct tape, and that counts for something I guess.

Posted at 10:32 pm on May 2nd, 2007 by TJHooker

haha tjhooker, and the wheel is just a square with the corners rounded off.

Posted at 4:51 pm on May 3rd, 2007 by mkoracer

Great pic and video – thanks for sharing.

Posted at 5:27 am on Jul 7th, 2009 by Arcade