Sentry Gun 2

The idea of this project was to create a fully-automated sentry gun, capable of picking out a human target and accurately tracking and shooting him or her in the heart. Really, the idea was to find a cool robotics project for the summer while I was working at an advertising agency, and I'd only ever seen sentry guns in movies (like Congo) and video games (Half-Life 1, Half-Life 2, Team Fortress Classic). I couldn't find any record of anyone building one, even the military, although it seems likely I just didn't look hard enough. It's a pretty simple technology. One of my friends did mention the Phalanx anti-missile gun, which is of similar design, but uses radar for tracking instead of an optical method. The Phalanx has been around since the early 80's. He was also quick to add that there are some pretty good reasons for not building an optical sentry gun, a big one being that it's generally a good idea to shoot down any missile headed in your direction, but that same philosophy may not be the best when applied to humans.

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• Sentry
• Gun
• Robot

[Shadowmaxim]

Spys sappin mah sentry?

[ICEraptor1111]

make sure a spy dosent sap it

[MechanicalStagfish]

Are you using motors? If so use servos instead, it will stop it wobbling around.

[lennertmets]

That's what it was made for..

(And hahahaha! What I had to write in the security-box was "redispa" hahaha!)

[lennertmets]

That's what it was made for.

[frenchy381]

I really would want to know what parts you can get online for this project and specific things you might need to buy to build this. If you could that'll be great I just think this is just crazy.

[AlexSDU]

@rednitam Yup, you got that right.

[rednitam]

looks like p90

[Diakabenda]

friendlçy fire ! lolol

[unsightlytroupe1]

My gf forgot to set the DVR for Human TArget this week. It was almost splitsville until she found it online at seehumantarget (.) com

[ifhgsfj]

The reason for not building it is that the technology is simply not there yet. At least, the technology ensuring that the sentry doesn't EVERYONE (even the person it was built by)! You don't want the gun that you built shooting at YOU and YOUR FRIENDS!

[MrChad1010]

how sis u make that airsoft sentry gun