1. It's down already.

Posted at 3:37AM on May 2nd 2007 by Crash

2. the idea is pretty gay, but the music is cool.

Posted at 3:37AM on May 2nd 2007 by penske

3. Cool setup and it appears fast too.

It reminds me off one a similar system i saw a few years back only it detected object movement on the camera ad the gun i believe was an air pellet version of a P90.

I think the idea behind using the gun was that at a later date it could be replaced with a real wapon.

Posted at 4:09AM on May 2nd 2007 by Apothus

4. @1 - Hmm. Its up now.

Posted at 8:24AM on May 2nd 2007 by Colin Karpfinger

5. @2 - lol, thanks. Iron Maiden gets me pumped like no other.

Posted at 9:22AM on May 2nd 2007 by Colin Karpfinger

6. Hmmm let me think of a number

09F911029D74E35bD84156C5635688C0

Enjoy, use it wisely.

Posted at 9:46AM on May 2nd 2007 by Ciaran

7. Nice. And here I was just thinking of constructing a giant AirZooka for the competition. :-P

Posted at 10:16AM on May 2nd 2007 by plasmonicgrid

8. This could be amazingly useful in a combat setting, in a very much "the tech we have now is ready" kind of way.

Obviously, we are a few leaps and bounds from anything like an assassin droid, but I was thinking rather you would disperse a number of these robots in a tactical setting and then the soldiers would use lasers to paint targets (coupled with some sort of wireless ident, of course).

Advantages:
(1) Soldiers don't have to worry about a heavy gun.
(2) Soldiers don't have to worry about ammunition.
(3) Soldiers can hit a target hidden behind "cover" from a multitude of different angles, even if the target was hidden from view.
(4) Once a target is painted, soldiers can keep under cover or even retreat while the robots continue to lay down fire at the target.
(5) Soldiers can fire multiple directions at once.
....

Posted at 11:45AM on May 2nd 2007 by sackofcatfood

9. This is based on the inventgeek turret project.

http://inventgeek.com/Projects/usbairsoftturret/Overview.aspx

Posted at 12:05PM on May 2nd 2007 by jason anders

10. @9:

This is *NOT* based on the inventgeek turret project. In fact I believe I began working on things before that project was released.

The invent geek turret uses a pre-made base from a 40$ product you can buy online. I built mine from the ground up, and am using entirely different code, servos, protocol.

I am using the same gun... only by chance though. probably because its the cheapest electric airsoft gun out there, lol.

Posted at 12:25PM on May 2nd 2007 by Colin Karpfinger

11. i'm going to be using the same gun as well for my defcon bot. i haven't made nearly as much progress on mine though.

Posted at 5:28PM on May 2nd 2007 by Yan

12. The design looks similar to a project I've seen at RIT. Are the designers of this from RIT?

Posted at 5:32PM on May 2nd 2007 by an0ther_1

13. Really impressive! I like it!

Posted at 5:38PM on May 2nd 2007 by bking

14. very cool. in the video its just white on black background. how does it work with different colors?

Posted at 7:49PM on May 2nd 2007 by adam

15. This looks amazing.
I want one. :)

Posted at 10:16PM on May 2nd 2007 by Xios117

16. @12

No, I'm just a lone ranger going to a small school in Wisconsin (UW Eau Claire). I would be interested to see RITs project though, do you have any info?

Posted at 10:28PM on May 2nd 2007 by Colin Karpfinger

17. Your project rules!

Good luck in the competition!

Posted at 10:37PM on May 2nd 2007 by Deb

18. haha tjhooker, and the wheel is just a square with the corners rounded off.

Posted at 4:52PM on May 3rd 2007 by mkoracer

19. Reminds me of a cut up airsoft gun literally strapped to a base from something else, oh wait, it is. He didn't use duct tape, and that counts for something I guess.

Posted at 8:34PM on May 3rd 2007 by TJHooker