Comments on: Defcon Bot challenge prototype

By: Arcade

Arcade — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:27:07 +0000

Great pic and video – thanks for sharing.

By: mkoracer

mkoracer — Thu, 03 May 2007 23:51:41 +0000

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

By: TJHooker

TJHooker — Thu, 03 May 2007 05:32:43 +0000

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.

By: Colin Karpfinger

Colin Karpfinger — Thu, 03 May 2007 05:28:05 +0000

@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?

By: Xios117

Xios117 — Thu, 03 May 2007 05:13:24 +0000

This looks amazing.
I want one. :)

By: adam

adam — Thu, 03 May 2007 02:49:05 +0000

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

By: bking

bking — Thu, 03 May 2007 00:37:47 +0000

Really impressive! I like it!

By: an0ther_1

an0ther_1 — Thu, 03 May 2007 00:31:58 +0000

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

By: Yan

Yan — Thu, 03 May 2007 00:27:46 +0000

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.

By: Colin Karpfinger

Colin Karpfinger — Wed, 02 May 2007 19:25:30 +0000

@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.

By: jason anders

jason anders — Wed, 02 May 2007 19:04:43 +0000

This is based on the inventgeek turret project.

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

By: sackofcatfood

sackofcatfood — Wed, 02 May 2007 18:45:23 +0000

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.
....

By: plasmonicgrid

plasmonicgrid — Wed, 02 May 2007 17:16:17 +0000

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

By: Ciaran

Ciaran — Wed, 02 May 2007 16:46:26 +0000

Hmmm let me think of a number

09F911029D74E35bD84156C5635688C0

Enjoy, use it wisely.

By: Colin Karpfinger

Colin Karpfinger — Wed, 02 May 2007 16:22:35 +0000

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