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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Rictor on September 22, 2005, 06:10:33 pm

Title: Homemade sentry turret.
Post by: Rictor on September 22, 2005, 06:10:33 pm
:yes2:;7:yes: (http://cs-people.bu.edu/aaron/turret/turret.htm)

edit: mods, could you please change that to "sentry"?
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Title: Homemade sentry turret.
Post by: Omniscaper on September 22, 2005, 06:12:42 pm
I WANT ONE!!!!  That ought to drive away the Jehova Witnesses!

LMAO
Title: Homemade sentry turret.
Post by: Nuclear1 on September 22, 2005, 06:15:40 pm
:lol: :lol: Me wants! Me wants now!

That'll teach those damned Girl Scouts! :lol:
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Post by: vyper on September 22, 2005, 06:26:49 pm
Now that's what I call home defence!
Title: Homemade sentry turret.
Post by: Omniscaper on September 22, 2005, 06:34:40 pm
GIRL SCOUTS!!! Say hello to my little fwiend!!!
Title: Homemade sentry turret.
Post by: Carl on September 22, 2005, 11:01:55 pm
i'd put it outside my room.
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Post by: Ford Prefect on September 23, 2005, 12:36:32 am
Jehovah's Witnesses = owned.
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Post by: Fenrir on September 23, 2005, 12:45:40 am
I can only assume there's supposed to be an image there, 'cause I'm not seeing anything...
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Post by: Ford Prefect on September 23, 2005, 12:52:09 am
My post? No, I'm just dreaming of the possibilities.
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Post by: StratComm on September 23, 2005, 12:59:32 am
Fenrir, mouse over the smilies.
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Post by: übermetroid on September 23, 2005, 11:09:39 am
My wife was a Jehovah's Witnesses untill she got sick and tired of all the BS they had to do.
Title: Homemade sentry turret.
Post by: Descenterace on September 24, 2005, 03:33:23 am
I have actually been giving serious consideration to building a sentry turret with twin airguns. Mainly for the technical challenge but also to protect against the sort of thieving scum who exist in every city, not just Bristol. If they're going to break into my house, they take their lives into their own hands...

Because image-recognition-based IFF isn't the most reliable technology when homebrewed (or otherwise, for that matter) this little project has been dropped.

A remote-controlled turret has definite possibilities, but I might load it with tranquilisers instead.
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Post by: Mefustae on September 24, 2005, 05:48:07 am
Damn, that'd be useful as hell at Halloween time...damn kids wanting their candy...

...i'll give 'em candy alright...at several hundred kilometres per hour!!! :devil:
Title: Homemade sentry turret.
Post by: Martinus on September 24, 2005, 06:43:02 am
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Originally posted by Mefustae
Damn, that'd be useful as hell at Halloween time...damn kids wanting their candy...

...i'll give 'em candy alright...at several hundred kilometres per hour!!! :devil:

[color=66ff00]What you need mate is a gimbal mounted spud gun.

Or a therapist.
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Post by: Galemp on September 24, 2005, 11:32:46 am
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Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]What you need mate is a gimbal mounted spud gun.

Or a therapist.
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That's sig material right there.
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Post by: Rictor on September 24, 2005, 11:37:56 am
Hey Maeg, you seem to be pretty handy with all the shop stuff, why don't you give it a shot? If you can make a guitar from scratch, a gun attached to a rotating platform shouldn't be too difficult. Get someone to program the software (we have plenty of capable coders round here) and HLP will be the only web forum to have it's own automated defences.
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Post by: Mongoose on September 24, 2005, 11:39:10 am
Yeah, you can put it outside Gamespy's server arrays to protect them from Rupert Murdoch. :p
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Post by: CP5670 on September 24, 2005, 11:42:33 am
This would make a very interesting project. I would give it a shot if I had the time.
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Post by: Knight Templar on September 24, 2005, 11:56:48 am
It's too bad the gun on it sucks ass.
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Post by: Martinus on September 24, 2005, 12:03:01 pm
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Originally posted by Rictor
Hey Maeg, you seem to be pretty handy with all the shop stuff, why don't you give it a shot? If you can make a guitar from scratch, a gun attached to a rotating platform shouldn't be too difficult. Get someone to program the software (we have plenty of capable coders round here) and HLP will be the only web forum to have it's own automated defences.

[color=66ff00]Actually I am working on invisible wavelength, computer controlled, high fire rate, anti-personnel weaponry in my spare time.

Link (www.lasertagparts.com) ;)
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Post by: Fury on September 24, 2005, 12:09:33 pm
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
It's too bad the gun on it sucks ass.

Well, P90 is quite a good weapon as far as I know (I'm not a weapons expert and not planning to become one) and having a non-lethal airsoft replica on this sentry is very smart. Otherwise authorities might stop by and take the dangerous thing away in a flash, might also make a hefty fine at that as well.
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Post by: Martinus on September 24, 2005, 12:18:32 pm
[color=66ff00]Not to mention a real P90's recoil might require a whole lot more stabilisation to work properly and its weight would need larger motors and consequently a bigger power source and... well it would just be a bad idea to be honest. :)
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Post by: MicroPsycho on September 24, 2005, 03:10:38 pm
P90 ftw! But ya, i'm pretty sure that's a **** airsoft gun.
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Post by: Knight Templar on September 24, 2005, 06:49:45 pm
P90s are nice.

****ty airsoft P90 replicas with horizontally mounted open mags, holding 400 BBs in one big ass chamber are not. Ever try to airsoft against humans with one of those? Despite the fact that it's FPS sucks,  you sound like a ****ing F-14 when you move at anything faster than a crawl.
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Post by: Descenterace on September 26, 2005, 01:05:23 am
Re: Spudguns.

I think everyone knows someone who's built a spudgun capable of firing whole potatoes. At College, I knew two people who built them (firing apples through chickenwire is a fun way to make apple sauce, or just waste a lot of fruit).

But I think my design for the Spudder 500 would still shock a lot of people.

It's basically a potato chaingun. A breach-loading weapon, it's fueled by electricity, aerosols and potatos.
The potato drops into the loading port, where the bolt forces it forward into the barrel. As it moves forward, the ignition chamber within the bolt is filled with 'propellant', which is ignited when the bolt is fully forward. The bolt then moves backward to accept another spud.
The loading system proved to be a bit of a headache. Merely dropping spuds into the breach wouldn't always work (a large one might jam the bolt) so I came up with the idea of using sections of pipe preloaded with potato. However, the mag size would be limited. And preparing mags would be time-consuming.
So maybe a rotary breach block, a bit like a revolver, with a robotic loader at the bottom which would force the spud into the lowermost barrel.

The goal: 50spm (spuds per minute).