Paintball gun turret

posted Feb 26th 2009 5:55pm by Eliot Phillips
filed under: misc hacks, security hacks

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[Jared Bouck] has been sending in his projects for a couple years now. We’ve enjoyed his heavy-duty DDR pads, LCD backlight repair, and ion cooling projects. His latest, an RC paintball gun turret, is our favorite though. He actually rates this as one of the easier projects he’s published; it just took a while to assemble. Several design decisions were made to keep the project simple. Two 32 Degrees Icon-E paintball guns were used. The guns already have electric solenoids for firing, so a special trigger mechanism didn’t have to be fashioned. Q-loaders were used to prevent any ball feed problems. The motors, driver boards, and RC components are all borrowed from combat robots for reliability. He’s hoping to produce a small number of kits based on this design.

Related: We’ve got quite a few sentry gun projects in the archive.

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tagged: gun, invent geek, InventGeek, jared bouck, kit, paintball, paintball gun, q-loader, rc, sentry, sentry gun, trigger

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C’mon, no video?

Posted at 7:05 pm on Feb 26th, 2009 by tony

Spy’s sappin’ meh Sentry!

Posted at 7:21 pm on Feb 26th, 2009 by Mr. Sandman

Wow, that q-loader makes the turret look bad-ass.

100-shots only though :( maybe he can hack up a bigger one ;)

Posted at 8:32 pm on Feb 26th, 2009 by nubie

sweeeet!

Posted at 10:16 pm on Feb 26th, 2009 by grizball

Just need to hook that up to a motion-sensory cam causing it to aim and fire at any thing large that’s moving.

Posted at 11:11 pm on Feb 26th, 2009 by Ste@l

He could have used other hoppers that are just as jam free and load just as fast, although it wouldn’t have looked as sleek. It would be ridiciously awesome if he had a big magazine on the top that houses several of those q loader pods, and had a mechanism for loading fresh ones and dropping the old ones. That’s a lot more complicated though.

Posted at 12:13 am on Feb 27th, 2009 by schwillis

No video on YouTube! Too long :-(

Posted at 12:51 am on Feb 27th, 2009 by liebesiech

“honey… can you come into the garage I have something to show you…”

>:)

Posted at 1:27 am on Feb 27th, 2009 by Chris

I want a roof mounted model for my truck. should take care of tailgaters and jerks that cut me off in traffic. maybe load it with those vomit balls the police use.

Posted at 5:22 am on Feb 27th, 2009 by polymath

Looks like one of the “drone” guns from golden eye the jungle level.

Posted at 5:22 am on Feb 27th, 2009 by eric

“Are you still there?”

“I see you…”

Posted at 5:57 am on Feb 27th, 2009 by Dave

This is awesome. Consistent ball loading has always been a problem for this purpose. I just went to the q-loader website, but they don’t tell you anything about the product or how it works – I guess they only sell to people who already know about them.

It does look like it could be some kind of multi-start helical loading system though. Anyone know for sure?

Anyone have either other products or DIY solutions to the problem of large capacity automatic ball feeding?

Posted at 7:58 am on Feb 27th, 2009 by stunmonkey

He posted new videos. kinda funny, and very informative.

Posted at 9:36 am on Feb 27th, 2009 by jaysonS

The q-loader is just a spring loaded helical feeding system. There is a spring going down a center tube that pushes out the balls. The pods only hold 100 balls so you wouldn’t get too many shots before having to reload.
A high capacity feeder could easily be made by modifying existing force-fed paintball hoppers. Just about all of them will be more than adequate to consistently feed paintballs.

Posted at 9:37 am on Feb 27th, 2009 by Striker9

try looking here:
http://www.warpig.com/paintball/technical/loaders/qloader_review/index2.shtml
not a bad review, goes into decent detail on the q-loader

Posted at 9:53 am on Feb 27th, 2009 by xshawk

no video of use…?

Posted at 12:14 pm on Feb 27th, 2009 by Ethan

oww good.

Posted at 5:02 pm on Feb 27th, 2009 by online sinema

haha thats crazy!

Posted at 8:24 pm on Feb 27th, 2009 by constantly87

They now have a full kit for sale on the last page of the project write up!

Posted at 10:34 pm on Feb 27th, 2009 by Steve

how does it tilt?

Posted at 8:31 am on Feb 28th, 2009 by Ethan

As mr. sandman so eloquently put it, Spy Sappin’ Mah Sentry!

Posted at 3:37 pm on Feb 28th, 2009 by Laser Pup

Is it just me or does that bring memories of the blue team engineer from Team Fortress/Half Life 1

Posted at 7:55 pm on Feb 28th, 2009 by Mad

Oh god, QLoaders. I hate those things. What a hassle, they were not worth it at all.
On a side note that thing looks kick ass and I would love to get shot by it.

Posted at 9:45 pm on Feb 28th, 2009 by CyberPrime

interesting. very good:)

Posted at 4:23 pm on Mar 1st, 2009 by Bedava Film izle

@ stunmonkey

http://www.qloader.com/movies.html

Posted at 1:56 pm on Mar 2nd, 2009 by barry99705

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxBa5bQfTGc

another turret, not rc.

Pretty good programming

Posted at 7:23 pm on Mar 3rd, 2009 by waffleking101

in paintball, are we allowed to use this :) It is a cheat I guess :)

Posted at 7:34 am on Mar 15th, 2009 by bedava

now thats a pretty cool piece of paintball equipment if you ask me. The design looks fantastic. i may just have to buy one of those kits.

Posted at 10:43 am on Apr 22nd, 2009 by Beau

you gotta love that. Hmmmm. i wonder if you could het that tournament certified. Now that would be really interesting.

Posted at 10:52 am on Apr 22nd, 2009 by Paintball Guns For Sale

i fucking love the top gun, the blue one, email if u were i can get it.

Posted at 1:36 am on May 11th, 2009 by dan frost

That thing is bad assed, I’m going to try and build one and post a video blog of how it went on my site. I wonder if that would be useful in an actual game since you it would be hard to see your targets…would be sweet if you could tie it to a motion sensor!

Posted at 6:02 pm on Jun 7th, 2009 by paintball guns warehouse

That is one serious paintball marker! I have seen something similar to this at a scenario event, but this is serious.

Posted at 10:57 am on Jul 12th, 2009 by Online Paintball Store

Wow that is some serious bit of kit. I may and try and convince my boss to invest in something similar for one of our sites, we could use it to train our marshalls…. dance marshall… dance..!!..

Posted at 6:43 am on Aug 20th, 2009 by Paintball Games

They have one of these mounted in a tower on the south london paintball field.

Posted at 5:25 am on Oct 20th, 2009 by Dan

Are these tournament legal haha would make breakouts more fun!

Posted at 5:26 am on Oct 20th, 2009 by Paintball

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