Sentry Gun

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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[Phantomreaper1999]

If it does that and play whatever is it -.-...what if a teammate passes it and gets pegged to death...(Not litteraly) Sry for the spelling

[Losek13]

@zf2645 It was thinking... Friend? Or enemy?

[Softlol]

the other guy called: 243rf34ew got much better sentry guns!

[DARTHMOBIUS]

this is a kids concept, sentry guns exist and are brutaly efficient

[zf2645]

Hahahhahaha you had to stand still for 7 whole seconds before it shot you.

How could this possibly hit a moving human target?

[CrossedSwords92]

the legs stay firm, its the parts that are meant to move that shake.

[CrossedSwords92]

well no shit, probably paintballs, do you really think they wanted us to believe, or any of use do believe it shot him with REAL bullets?

[SweeedenVXO]

It's a really cool sentry but it doesn't look so stabil. when it moves it bounces all over the place...

[FieldMarhsall]

its an aeg airsoft gun which makes it easy to control firing

[matchheads]

...awesome