[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
$3500 if you want the WinXP version :P
I was going to say ‘not another airsoft/paintball sentry gun!’ but the linux makes me say otherwise.
HEllo,
Are you still customizing any of these Autonomous paintball gun ?
Thanks
Jean
this could be fun for home security, but damn i want one
Hello,
were you able to get one those Autonomous paintball gun ? its great Idea for home security .
Thanks
Jean
Whoa! I need one of those in my garden.
~Are you still there?~
~there you are!~
“… designed by me, built by me, and you best hope, not pointed at you.”
eww, commercial.
Just shoot a portal at a wall and one below the sentry and your golden…
–ME
ahh at least they could of used something much better than a tippman 98 custom.
hahahah thats a good quote pocketbrain.. the whole time i was watching the video i was thinking of team fortress 2
I actually donated money the other day to a similar project you can find at http://www.paintballsentry.com. So cool.
Good point #3:
Drop a weighted companion cube on this thing and it’s done.
I’m not donating anything to a project that’s written
“I’m not giving out the source code. it constantly changes anyway. “
=P
How do you keep the spies from sappin’ your sentries? Does this come with a gigantic wrench?
those things are easy to take out. all you need to do is hack together a gravity gun ;-)
And, how long will it take before someone has an ak047 hooked up to this thing?
It would be cool if you could monitor it’s status over ethernet. Maybe stream the video and allow people to remote control it if possible? Add SMS notification of motion detection, wifi, and pepperballs and I’ll buy 2 :)
When Ultra-Sapper device is affixed to the top section of the sentry device, remove red and green
wire and tune dial (bludgeon device with reckless
abandon using wrench included in package. Follow
up with sporadic shotgun fire in the immediate
vicinitiy of sentry device. Shotgun also included in
package.) to frequency KZQ-10z.
This is inspiring! I want to build a x-mas tree sentry. This past x-mas, my 4 cats declared war. Im currently learning about robotics from my high school FTC league. The build in my head uses water as ammo.