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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Autonomous Paintball Sentry Guns

Airsoft Sentry Gun Version 4

Video Link...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMBojjc6sVg

Autonomous Paintball Sentry Gun

Make your own, custom AUTONOMOUS SENTRY GUN!

A Microcontroller Contest Finalist and Runner Up Winner.

This instructable is out-of-date. For the most recent version of the tutorial, see the website . Cheers!

This sentry gun autonomously tracks, aims, and shoots at targets, using:
-An airsoft or paintball gun
-A webcam to find targets
-A computer to process the video feed and aim the gun
-Servo motors to physically aim the gun and squeeze the trigger
-A sturdy tripod base
-A microcontroller to interface between the computer and the servo motors
-Lots of camo paint
The end result is a paintball/airsoft spewing robot, that can turn the tides of any match.

Video if it in action here .

Want to build your own?
You're in luck! All the help and information you will need is here, and the software is free and open-source. Lots of people have already used this system in their own sentry guns, with successful results.
So go ahead, make your own, and soon your own backyard will be no-man's land, too!

P.S. take pictures during the project, and when you are finished, send me a picture, and a description of your project, and I will feature it on the Successful Projects page of my website. Thanks!

Step 1Parts List

          Airsoft / paintball gun, or other 'projectile dispenser'
$30   Webcam
$25   Arduino (or equivalent)
$27   3 Servo motors (pan, tilt, trigger) $9 ea.
$10   Assorted screws, nuts and bolts
$9   Wood/metal for construction
$5     USB A to B cable
$2     Some 22 gauge solid wire
$2     Servo battery box
$110 TOTAL

Also, you will need a laptop or computer to run the sentry gun program. $250 for a cheap netbook, if you don't have anything else...

Step 2Arduino

Read More...
http://www.instructables.com/id/Autonomous-Paintball-Sentry-Gun/?ALLSTEPS

Welcome to Project Sentry Gun, home to the most versatile sentry gun on the web!

Now in use on six continents!

This sentry gun autonomously tracks, aims, and shoots at targets, using:

An airsoft or paintball gun

A webcam to find targets

A computer to process the video feed and aim the gun

Servo motors to physically aim the gun and squeeze the trigger

A sturdy tripod base

A microcontroller to interface between the computer and the servo motors

Fully open-source code

Lots of camo paint

The end result is a paintball/airsoft spewing robot, that can turn the tides of any match.

Read More and See the Rest of Bob's Site...

http://projectsentrygun.rudolphlabs.com/home

Sentry gun controller-board upgrade

posted Mar 29th 2012 12:01pm by Mike Szczys
filed under: weapons hacks

This open source sentry gun controller board builds on a great concept by getting rid of the Arduino board. The previous version was an Arduino shield, but this upgrade keeps all of the cool features by rolling the necessary parts into one smaller footprint.

The image above doesn’t quite convey the scope of the project. Go take a look at the feature from last year which used the shield version of the controller.

Read More...
http://hackaday.com/2012/03/29/sentry-gun-controller-board-upgrade/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hackaday%2FLgoM+%28Hack+a+Day%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

Project Sentry Gun - Tutorial #4: The Sentry Controller (Standalone)

Video Link...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qdBASlWQTaQ

Here's another one with impressive targeting abilities, made by www.zero-op.com made in 2008...

Zero-Op Systems was founded in 2007 with the intent to provide exciting technologies in the field of robotics and computer vision.

By the summer of 2008 we have succeeded in creating several successful prototypes of our paintball sentry gun, The Mercenary. The future of Zero-Op Systems will be based around providing innovative products to the fields of Paintball, Military Training, and Computer Vision.

We pride ourselves on doing things never seen before in the professional market.

Go there...
http://www.zero-op.com/about

Meet the Mercenary

Video Link...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_wtt_wueP0&feature=player_embedded

This is Cool Tech and Amazing to me! Amazing, that kids these days can build this kind of stuff, at home! Cool and kind of Scary too... If people can build things like this at home. Then, just imagine what the Military has now, that they are not telling US about!:O

Don