Advanced Auto-targeting stereo vision paintball sentry with second order interception solver
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Sup Facepunch.
You all remember the auto-turret wire mod contraptions we used to make with bearing finders and thrusters and shit.
Well that was almost 10 years ago, I present you with a project I've been working on for the last year.
It uses stereo vision to find the target in X,Y,Z space and therefore can work out its instantaneous velocity and acceleration, then runs a projectile-interception solver to figurmalate where to aim the gun so the two meet each other and have a ball of a time.
I'm only posting this here singe Gmod instilled the real life auto-turret hunger in me. Sure there were paintball sentries out there but they used model aircraft servo and couldn't accurately account for projectile time of flight. Their control systems were sluggish and sloppy. This is version 0.1, so improvements are definitely to come.
[video=youtube;zCV0viLxYUY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCV0viLxYUY&t=80s[/video]
I was thinking, they make a pretty effective home defence weapon. And it marks them too!
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;52768932]I was thinking, they make a pretty effective home defence weapon. And it marks them too![/QUOTE]
Yes that was the whole motivation thing we had to write about why this will be useful why its done, literature study and all that crap. But to be honest I just wanted to build some cool shit.
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