delete

noname · Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:19 pm

All I can think of would be electrically with someone actually controlling it, but not automatically firing by itself.

crazyfreak0075 · Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:30 pm

I've acctually looked into this somewhat just thinking and all.
But what i came up with was a range finder like the ones used in hunting and that would send the distance to the laptop. Then have a program that calculates the trajectory and takes into account the object is moving. And have the comp. move the turret and fire. I have no clue if this would work. Just ideas

.

singularity · Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:39 pm

well thats parts easy i need to detect movement (with a sensor but i dont no which type to get) thewn interpert the data from the censor with i program im gonna have to make. lets say the sensor noticed move ment in the left corner, the gun would turn to the left, recheck the sensor and adjust until the movement was in the center of the censor's view, at which point the gun would fire, a simple concept yet it seems like its going to be hard to implement. the first step is finding a suitable censor, so any idea on one?

crazyfreak0075 · Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:50 pm

ummm........i know what you mean ill get back to you on that. maybe like some sort of radar using high piched sound waves. Yeah thats a toughy.

FiveseveN · Wed Sep 20, 2006 8:09 pm

Oh, come on. Even Flash can detect targets/movement via webcam.
It's been done before: http://www.usmechatronics.com/old_page/turret.htm

singularity · Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:34 pm

o i remeber seeing that on hack a day, but i didnt remeber it till now

)DEMON( · Thu Sep 21, 2006 1:39 am

You must get a cheap helicopter so you can use the servo's and motors for the main system then control it via remote control. For the targeting system you could use laser guidence.

killagorrila99 · Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:33 am

Some type of tripwire????? or why not get one of those cheap motion sencors from toyworld and hook it up somehow???

pyromanic13 · Thu Sep 21, 2006 5:30 pm

search on Hack a day i've seen it there.

FiveseveN · Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:38 pm

The post on Hack A Day was about the same one I mentioned earlier.
There was a toy featured on Gizmodo a few weeks back that detected intruders and shot nails at them or something (not before an audio warning). I totally forgot what it was called, though. I guess you could adapt it to trigger an airsoft gun or something like that. Sure beats having to write your own target aquisition software.

singularity · Thu Sep 21, 2006 11:55 pm

yea but the hole point of this project was to give me something to cause im really board (i was sick for a while i and couldnt make anything so now im REALLY bord) i do remeber seeing something that shot foam disc at people

saladtossser · Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:22 am

hey i got a really dumb solution:

make a turret move with your mouse, have a non moving webcam open so you see what is going on, have a color aimbot track a specific color the target is wearing, the aimbot with track that color with your mouse cursor so the gun tracks that color too

and i believe there is one website i've been to that has the source code for such an turret, cant find it though

---edit

heres one that is actually practical

have a webcam take a picture in front of it, the gun will shoot at anything that is not in the original picture. for each pixel of the picture, get it's RGB value, and give it a range that is higher than it, and lower than it, to adjust for different brightness, and if any pixel goes out of that range, it means it's not supposed to be there and thus shoots at it, if many pixels are out of that range, find the area between the most top left to the most bottom right pixel, making a rectangular area that the gun shoots at

any programmers here that can make a program that gives you the RGB number of every pixel?

FiveseveN · Fri Sep 22, 2006 12:24 pm

Like I was saying, you can do it in Flash: http://www.nastypixel.com/prototype/?page_id=73
The hard part is interfacing the tracker with the servos. I don't think Flash can talk to the serial port. Programming is a pain...

saladtossser · Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:16 pm

that flash thing rules, i dug up a old color aimbot, moded it a bit
http://www.freewebtown.com/makeagokart/tracker.zip
its almost 1mb, includs two programs, one of them is the flash and the other is the tracker

btw i didnt make any of those, i put my name in it for practice
you need to use both programs at once, when and if i do the actual motor controlling program you need 3 programs at once

this is a really really half assed way to do such a thing, i dont know how to control servos but steppers are posible