Autonomous paintball sentry gun
posted Aug 24th 2008 8:30pm by Eliot Phillipsfiled under: robots hacks

[Alan] pointed out this great commercial paintball sentry gun. The gun has a low power motherboard running Ubuntu connected to a firewire camera. Two high torque motors control the pan and tilt of a Tippman 98 custom. The control box allows for easy setup. You can change the sensitivity, color tracking, and firing modes. It also has a remote kill switch. All around a nice looking machine, but at $3K we doubt many of you will be buying one. Beta test video embedded after the break.
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i personally like this one better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxBa5bQfTGc
but it doesnt seem to have color recognition, only movement. So i guess the commercial one might be better for team based games
Posted at 9:22 pm on Aug 24th, 2008 by Ling