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- inactive, on 07/07/2008, -2/+221Considering that this is just a high school kid's project, with no experience with code before this project, that is DAMN impressive.
- Fatcheeseguy, on 07/07/2008, -2/+172Laptop gun ftw.
- zyl0x, on 07/07/2008, -1/+139Put a real gun on that thing and I finally have something to defend my house during the zombie apocalypse!
- Slovenian6474, on 07/07/2008, -1/+138"Sentry going up!"
- Evolutuon, on 07/06/2008, -0/+134An accomplishment that fires back. Props to that kid.
- hotpuck6, on 07/07/2008, -0/+131The trick-or-treaters will love his house this year.
- kuehlschrank, on 07/07/2008, -0/+129"Are you still there?"
- tjex, on 07/07/2008, -1/+113-Wonder if you can slowly crawl past it without getting shot
-Wonder how many times the neighborhood cat will get hit.
"Mom, why is fluffy covered in orange paint and all spastic?!" - Rikushix, on 07/06/2008, -0/+111Trampoline Drop was the best part.
"I'm never doing that again." - inactive, on 07/07/2008, -1/+100SPY SAPPIN' MUH SENTRY!
- Alex2, on 07/05/2008, -4/+100Spy!
- Drazzim12, on 07/07/2008, -0/+81Check out his preliminary motion tracking tests with an Airsoft pistol (wait for the end):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm37Nxxq_QY - chrissku, on 07/07/2008, -0/+67This kid is a genius! Kudos.
- fafster, on 07/07/2008, -1/+64Now fat people can play paintball, too!
- WannaBeSquare, on 07/07/2008, -4/+67A Spy is Sappin ma Sentry!
- Ghoztt, on 07/07/2008, -0/+58"I love you"
"Is anybody there?"
"Gooodbyee" - Mikey129, on 07/07/2008, -0/+55Just think what a Level 3 version of that could do
- anagoge, on 07/07/2008, -1/+35This takes balls.
- Chaoticx, on 07/07/2008, -1/+34I went to a presentation at my school last semester of a guy who made something very similar. This one looks to be basically the same. The one I saw had a few limitations which he described, but also a lot of cool features. He told us how he programmed the whole thing from scratch as a Physics major and having no prior knowledge of programming, so I thought that was pretty impressive.
Basically, he mounted the gun on two motors: one for horizontal rotation and one for vertical. The limitation in this was that each "degree" of rotation in the motors did not match up exactly to normal degrees and so he had to map these and store them all in a 2D array which was aligned with the camera image. The camera was just a webcam but it had rounded corners when you looked at it on a screen. He demonstrated this by showing a checkerboard through the camera and showing that the lines were curved towards the edges, so that all had to be aligned as well. His took about 3 hours to align itself on first start but every subsequent startup was only about 30 seconds. Also, it was programmed to pick out a color, so when he turned it on he threw a red shirt out into the crowd and had people throw it around and the thing followed it everywhere.
The other limitation is picking up 3D space. The only ways to do this are to either use some kind of sonar location (laser, sound) or 2 cameras to use (similar to 2 eyes for depth perception) and he hadn't implemented that yet. All in all it was really impressive for just a research project done by a college student. Would be interested in seeing where things like this go in the future. - zyl0x, on 07/07/2008, -4/+37***** SHUT UP. I'm so sick of this "OLD" *****. 90 years is old. 10 months is not old.
- lendrick, on 07/07/2008, -0/+26Maybe if he's lucky, someone at DARPA will see this video and offer him a job. :)
- Evi1d33d, on 07/07/2008, -1/+25Hit it with the wrench.
- mk3k, on 07/07/2008, -1/+25Nope. The game is fun because of the physical action. All you are describing is a FPS. Go online and shoot your friends.
- matt11885, on 07/07/2008, -1/+24Perfect Dark ftw!
- doctechnical, on 07/07/2008, -0/+22Oh, YEAH! Just leave a bowl full of candy next to it with a sign that says "Only take one. You have been warned."
- TheModernArdeo, on 07/07/2008, -0/+20The kid has a future in the military.
- SlvrEagle23, on 07/07/2008, -1/+21CAUTION: ROGUE ROBOTS!
- cerealjynx, on 07/07/2008, -0/+20Holy crap, where's an EMP device when you need one?
- fritzek, on 07/07/2008, -0/+19Basically a camera, very fast algorithm for object recognition and movement detection, some nicely optimised controllers, pair of strong stepper motors and a paintball gun. If its a kid, it must be really genius. But I'd say its a cybernetics student.
- jordan314, on 07/07/2008, -0/+18I see you...
- dragonstar08, on 07/07/2008, -0/+18Now the only thing he needs is the Portal Gun.
- nukemben, on 07/07/2008, -0/+17Jesus, I cannot believe something like this has not properly been done before. MASSIVE market potential. Just mount it on wheels and put some AI on it. Games could be a reality, well except the portals bit. Why on earth has a large company not spotted this niche yet! Humans VS AI paintball machines ftw!
- inactive, on 07/07/2008, -1/+17Isn't anyone going to welcome our new sentry gun overlords?
- Augie1969, on 07/07/2008, -1/+15So...what am I looking at here? A motion sensor with some kind of object recognition software?
- jeshakespeare, on 07/07/2008, -0/+14Well he said in the description he had zero programming experience before the project, so presumably not a student in the field. Probably just a big fan of terminator or a future leader of robot rebellion.
- Tyrghast, on 07/07/2008, -0/+14Most likely not... The DARPA engies are thinking "I can code this in my lunch break."
- gn0stik, on 07/07/2008, -0/+14Now if he could just make it say "are you still there?" in a drugged sounding child's voice.
- chubbstar, on 07/07/2008, -0/+13"i dont blame you."
- dsmx, on 07/07/2008, -2/+15Just need to get hold of 400 more metal and we can get a rocket launcher on that.
- russ3, on 07/07/2008, -1/+14Will it save the last bullet for me?
- Tyrghast, on 07/07/2008, -0/+12Are you still there?
- inactive, on 07/07/2008, -3/+16Too old, never hit front page, quit bitching.
- BuckCynnie, on 07/07/2008, -0/+12Rabbit free garden!
- Quickstrike, on 07/08/2008, -0/+11"My education level is HS"
It never said that he was currently in HS. It could just mean that since graduating, he has had a lot of free time on his hands. - Ryansmellsfarts, on 07/07/2008, -0/+12Because not everyone has seen it.
- hokie47, on 07/07/2008, -0/+10I am sure something like this can be useful, but I really think we are not ready for 50 cal machine version of this. Programing something to shoot moving object easy, progrmaing something to only shoot the enemy a lot harder.
- leerayIG88, on 07/07/2008, -0/+9What if it runs out of ammunition?
- inactive, on 07/07/2008, -1/+10damn it engie! why don't we have a dispenser?
i'd love to see that thing in an actual game. - jacexxxedge, on 07/07/2008, -0/+9I'm so glad someone agrees that there will be a zombie apocalypse.
It's not a matter of if there will be one.
It's a matter of when! - dagnabbit, on 07/07/2008, -0/+9Told you not to touch that darn thing.
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