Comments on: Automated Paintball Sentry

By: Mosquito

Mosquito — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 06:42:05 +0000

Hi Jake, Ben

Would you be interested in working with us at Weaponsgrade Kavelaars?

We are building an open source C# sentry gun software platform based on the same aforge motion algorithms, that can be used for just about build.

We’re currently trying to implement a “Leading Target” feature, so any tips you have would be really useful.

I also really like the dual webcam for field of view. It’s a good solution to a great short comings of webcams vs servo potential.

I’d love to hear what you think,
this is our forum: http://members.upc.nl/a.kutsenko/feedback.htm

-Mosquito.

By: Jake Scherer

Jake Scherer — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:09:50 +0000

Hey Johnny. The image processing code was custom C# written in Visual Studio and the microprocessor code was C written in PIC C. I wrote the image processing and will not post the whole code, but if you have specific questions I would be more than happy to help! http://code.google.com/p/aforge/ is a good place to get started with understanding different image filters and motion capture.

Thanks again for all of the positive comments everyone!

By: johnny waye

johnny waye — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:41:11 +0000

what is the code for this project and is it available?

By: Paintballing

Paintballing — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:59:58 +0000

This sentry looks pretty cool, there are loads of them on here, but this one looks like it has potential as far as home made ones go.

Olly

By: griffariff

griffariff — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 04:22:23 +0000

So where can I get the plans and a copy of the software? :-) I want one.

By: Pino

Pino — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:26:28 +0000

Simply a great project. Good Job

By: jigger

jigger — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:11:58 +0000

Paintball guns are not completely accurate, esp. the low-end ones shown in the video. You have to lead your target a little bit although at that range not much.

We are also building one of these lol

By: Cal

Cal — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:48:02 +0000

Awesome job guys. It sounds like if you had a little more time you could have tweaked this down to much better resolution with just a few mods. Very impressive nonetheless. To respond to Mr. Fart’s query above: most non visual sensors are not passive and can therefore be easily detected. By necessity a sentry weapon system needs to, at times, remain stealthy. Blasting ultrasonic into the surrounding environment would be a dead giveaway :) .. and frankly, not nearly as cool.

By: Ben Godding

Ben Godding — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:09:29 +0000

@strider
We were hoping that people would be smart enough to treat this like what it is, a weapon. (A hopefully non-lethal one) However my father after watching us run in front of this thing and get shot repeatedly just starts walking out in front of the friggin thing with no protection. everyone was all “What the hell are you doing!?!?!” and just says “Why would it shoot me?” and he was serious.

But yeah definitely best to only use this in a controlled area or with someone constantly manning the kill switch.

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:35:15 +0000

good point

listen fellas, shut it down when you go to lunch, okay?

There ya go.

By: parsnips

parsnips — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:18:48 +0000

I’m new in town, pardner, but is it possible that nobody is going to consider what will happen when someone without protective gear walks by this thing?

Massive lawsuit isn’t a great way to embark on a career.

By: Ben Godding

Ben Godding — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:46:58 +0000

heh heh, your right. My bad.

By: 2bithacker

2bithacker — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:02:04 +0000

Hmm… he says it’s a Mini-ITX board, but I’m pretty sure that’s Micro-ATX.

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:06:00 +0000

I for one think this is awesome.
Easily one of the most refined sentry gun designs featured on hackaday thus far.

now it needs to me mounted on a mobile platform.

heheh

nothing wrong with running a proven, stable os.

this is hacking, kiddies. -run what ya brung or go sit on your hat.

these guys are _doing_stuff_

By: anon

anon — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:46:48 +0000

@anonymous
@leetmo

obviously you two have never been out of your respective basement.

newsflash: windows is used as an embedded operation system from cash registers to industrial controllers