Comments on: Automated shooting range

By: Paintball

Paintball — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:28:04 +0000

Yeh it would hone your skills big time!

By: Paintballing

Paintballing — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:50:26 +0000

Thats pretty cool that you can get the targets to move freely. I downloaded some Olly Lang tutorials from one of his paintballing websites on improving his accuracy and they are all pretty boring if you don’t have another player to peform them with.. Hours of fun to be had with that system..

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By: K'nex Guns

K'nex Guns — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:05:10 +0000

You can make it out of K’nex too though.

By: eric

eric — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 06:40:59 +0000

Looks like something that the blackwater group sells for lots n lots of $$$ for big guns.

By: polymythic

polymythic — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:06:39 +0000

The cut up shirt for the trap worked pretty well in fact. Nothing go through (unless I missed and did hit the wall, of course). The mass of the target face is very light, and very neutral, so I not even up against the torque limitations of those little servos yet. The code is posted on my site, so dropping some of the delays would speed the targets up even more. Good idea though, and thanks for the feedback.

By: dgarman

dgarman — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:47:04 +0000

That’s awesome. Looks like a fun project. I agree with what people are saying about having a score counter though.

By: The Mainline

The Mainline — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:02:18 +0000

While you are at it, why not add a sensor that would be able to sense the location of impact, for airsoft training.

By: bullzebub

bullzebub — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:41:30 +0000

tat doesnt seem so healthy for the wall behind the targets! actually .. why didnt you made the BB stopper stationary and just flip the target? that would make it possible to flip them faster too since you have lesser mass :-)
cool project neverless :-)

By: deacon

deacon — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:05:17 +0000

I’d use a couple of servo’s and a PCI servo controller. But Im a big noob in this kind of engineering.

By: polymythic

polymythic — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:28:50 +0000

Yeah, I had some ideas for this. I can at *least* check the target face before its torn to shreds (in full-auto on the pistol, it goes swiss-cheese in a hurry). Thanks!

By: polymythic

polymythic — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:27:45 +0000

yeah, you’ve got it. Construx.

By: polymythic

polymythic — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:27:09 +0000

Yeah, they are indeed Construx. I had some ideas on “hit detection” but after all I can see the holes in the target face for scoring. Still, its really good feedback and ideas. I really like the one with the speaker detection and also the good/bad guy one.

By: frollard

frollard — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:49:53 +0000

a piezo on each target plus piezo on cardboard backdrop would detect hits and misses (hits would register both sensors). Twitter it to a scoreboard
‘downrange’ Dead simple.