Portal Turret Phidget

GC&SU's Spring 2008 CSCI 1302 Phidget Runway Project. (Programming Language: Java)

My phidget was a miniature turret from the game "Portal" It used a motion sensor in the front and a touch sensor in the back and responded with a variety of the turret's phrases.

The GUI portion of the program contained a widget of the turret which lit up based on its mode: Hibernate, Active, or Shut-Down.

To build the phidget, I used an "AquaPod" water bottle, cut off the top and a hole in the front, put in both the sensors and wrapped it in white duct tape, then I wrapped the bottom portion in silver duct tape and used broken sunglasses legs as the turret's side legs and a pen as the back one. You can't see it very well but I had a paper clip in there as the antennae.

My project got 3rd place. First place, ironically, was an actual turret (using foam discs)

Enjoy!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Portal
• Turret
• Phidget
• Motion
• Sensor
• Touch
• Widget
• Aquapod
• Robot
• Electronics
• Glados
• Java
• Programming
• Portal2

[harris9l]

Ugly turret.

[Bkelly2007]

@harris9l Bought materials out of pocket as a poor college student. If you want to see a better looking turret, click on the ads in the video.

[Luxai]

Meanwhile, at Valve.

[MrFudgeyBallz]

@McKillerRusGaming Wait, he has one?

[xJezika]

When i looked at it in the thumbnail I burst out laughing

[McKillerRusGaming]

Looks like bieber's dick

[youngmasterpete]

I was just thinking, it would be quite easy to make one with motion sensors

[legendoftime6]

@Bkelly2007 how do you become a part of the ad system to make money?

[y2k3100]

Cool!

[lodisish]

lame

[igor23ba]

that's some crap