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Skylasers is going to be creating adjustable slider lasers soon, for like 0-40, 0-80, 0-130, and so on. If you don't mind spending the money, you could buy an adjustable slider green burning laser. Then connect a servo to the slider and have your computer control the power, to be a pointer, or a burning laser :)
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If/when I make another one I'll put an airsoft gun on it and use steppers methinks. Mouse control would awesome, especially with a webcam to see the target.
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How advanced are you into coding... I know once on the show 'prototype' they develop a way to use a special marking on a persons shirt, that can draw a 3D shape on it to keep track...
Where I'm going is this: Are you advanced enough to mount a camera to it, and have it track? I use to play with Autoit back in the days, and I did Pixel tracing... So I was able to shine a green laser on the wall, and my computer mouse would move to that location. Same deal with you, except your gun moves to that location.
Tad advanced, buy possible no? Auto / Laser follow is fun!!
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I'm not that good at programming, at least not yet. I know enough about C, Basic and now Java to get things done, but I imagine image processing is a totally different league of uber hacking. I see paint-ball turrets are being made all the time now, and tracking software can be purchased on ebay (for 1000$). I expect some powerful open-source software will become available sooner than I have time to make another turret, so I'll just sit tight for now. It would rock though, a my-little-turret to acompany my-little-carbine.
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Hah... Most I've down with chips in C, was program a Yahtzee type game onto a 24X4 character LCD.. Only allows 7 custom characters, so the dice worked out good :) I've messed with codes that I've got offline that play Pacman on your TV, but I never fully learned how it works yet. Needs at least 64KB of space, so I have the ATMEGA644P chip :)
Nice.. Gun there, Uzzors.. Good luck with your project though!
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