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Here’s another hacked Nerf Vulcan rifle. This time it is an automated sentry gun. You must present it your badge, if no badge is found, you are assaulted with a fiery storm of small nerf darts. All encounters are logged and a photos are kept. This was a final project at Cornell, and for once it wasn’t ECE. This was for CS1114. They did a pretty good job with the tracking, now they need to add some more interesting voice options to it.
Badass. That’s the best documentation I think I’ve seen yet on any of these auto-turret projects.
Looks very good. Shows a lot of promise.
another gem from caleb kraft and his lack of spell check… the title of the video _clearly_ says ‘sentry’ whereas mr. kraft titled the article ‘centry’ … amazing
I bet this could be easily modified for paintball for all those paintball freaks.
and maybe even for home defense to “mark” the culprit with paint. I’m thinking back-yard sentry or front yard that’s fenced in.
oh yeah… first real post :-p
spellcheck title ;)
ok… nevermind… 4 people posted at the same time… gotta love the internets
“more interesting voice options…” anyone else think of the Portal turrets?
@an4rk
_thanks_ …most helpful it has been fixed…
Seriously though, I have to look over these better.
NERF ENGINEERS
easily the coolest nerf mod ever invented. ever
I felt ill when I saw a National Instruments USB-6008/9. Use a labjack instead of that overpriced crap, please!
I already owned the NI DAQ from a previous research project, so it made sense to use it.
Spy sappin’ my sentry!
I can’t believe it. More guns… same discussion we had with the portable coil pistol (may 7). check my comment and nubie’s comment about guns and the imagination… and then don’t wonder why so many people get killed here in the USA… http://hackaday.com/2009/05/07/portable-coil-pistol/
sansan. do you really believe nerf guns contribute to violence?
omgzz we haz to explode all gunz or they will come kill us all!!!
How does we do it? Magicz?
Good presentation, but I had one small thought about the language used; It was said “basically” then there proceeded to be a paragraph of description describing how some thing worked and was sending signals. This happened twice and didn’t sound very basic to me.
Other than by regular bsing (above) I think you did a very awesome job with this. Physics book for the win!
Nice work. I’m surprised they got the thing to turn at all with the servo. The image recognition over video is pretty cool too. Maybe when they take an ece class they’ll ditch the national instruments USB 6008/9 (or labjack, if that’s your thing) and just do servo control with a microcontroller over serial.
badge recognition? yeehaw!
Thatt’l stop that durn red spy from getting so close to my sentry!
am I the only one who found the mention of the napkin holders at 3:35 hilarious.
we couldn’t use a microcontroller because 1) this was supposed to be a matlab project, and 2) the setup we had (webcam and NI usb) worked fine and we had already spent enough money.
abumaia: you can easily change the sounds by substituting in different wavs in the sounds folder :)
Am I the only one to notice the music selection ruined the entire thing. Ick… Great job on the hardware/software of the project but I digress.
They made an automated nerf sentry gun with tracking and recognition capabilities and the only thing they can be called on are grammatical errors?
-and what music they chose for the video?
-really?
Looks like the only thing you really need to do is a little proof reading on your presentation.
That’s like 5 minutes and doesn’t even involve the project itself.
I’d call that pure -= win =- fellas.
pure win.
Congrats on an awesome project.
-and yes:
Best presented and best done sentry gun thus far.
Why is it that the lag on these “sentry” systems is so bad that even an out of shape person can dodge the aiming.
Put decent servos in there and either put in decent processing or close the loop tighter on the tracking. it should adjust aiming 60 times a second at least.
The phalanx auto guns reassess aiming 240 times a second
Very cool project Great Job!
i was hoping for robocop sound effects personally. “you have 15 seconds to comply”
you could also use proportional navigation for better tracking. like a sidewinder
http://science.howstuffworks.com/sidewinder6.htm
Ingenious!
@sansan
I’m sorry that you, or someone you know, has obviously suffered some loss at the hands of a nerf-gun wielding maniac, but I think that you lack what we living in free countries like to call “perspective”.
@mr.metro
You’re right; that music was AWESOME!
Now all we need to do is build a Nerf sapper and we’ll be all set!
Extremely badass, but it kills me that the kid talking about the software spent more time showing the different color schemes (“and this one looks like Star Wars”) than on how the target recognition works.
You are in direct violation
of penal code 27 section C.
– You have five seconds to comply.
– Four, three, two, one.
I am now authorized
to use physical force.
I would guess the reason the turret is slow to respond has to do with Matlab’s Image Aquisition Toolbox. I was playing around with it for a purpose similar to this and found it extremely clunky.
I gotta agree on the presentation, best sentry doc so far but still lacking alot of technical information.
must of been patronizing to go around picking up all those darts. that was always my least favorite part of nerf wars. I say get a roomba with dart recognition software to suck them up and bring them back!
“do you really believe nerf guns contribute to violence?”
In this country, we’re allowed to bear arms to protect ourselves from nerfiggas.
I want one of those for my lab! That’ll teach the maintenance people to just walk in and start messing around near our million dollar equipment without calling ahead first.
But why does it take crotch shots???
Slow aiming is forgivable. MATLAB is *slow*, and there’s not a heck of a lot you can do to get away from that. If you implemented it in something less bloat-tastic, i’m sure you could make it much quicker.
now make it controllable via internet… (gut a mobile security cam use it’s motor with the cam, Make sure you use one that can be connected to by the internet…)
Hey guys,
Great job guys! Did y’all use LabVIEW?
You can use the inputs on that 6009 instead of that stamp to control the limits.
How is this useful to any of our current common needs?
What, No thermal tracking interface?
can it be mad to fire at any movement? that would be beast!
and the movements are kinda slow and no too great…\\but over all it is fucking awesome!
Very Cool! I never even thought this was possible!
I Love the badge part!
Very useful if you’ve got an Arch-Nemesis coming to your house!
Am I the only one that thought they should integrate this into a scale model ED-209?
“YOU ARE IN A RESTRICTED AREA. PRESENT YOUR CREDENTIALS. YOU HAVE TEN SECONDS TO COMPLY.”
BLAMBLAMBLAMBLAMBLAMBLAM!
If any body have some data about sentry gun so plese share with me……I have an assignment please…..