Autonomous Paintball Sentry Gun

If you live in a rough neighborhood you can forget about getting a real gun or a dog because the Paintball Sentry Gun is now available: The “gun” uses a low power motherboard running Ubuntu that’s connected to a firewire camera. Two high torque motors control the pan and tilt of the Tippman 98 custom. Also there is a control box where you can change the sensitivity, color tracking, and switch between different firing modes.

“Inspired by countless movies and video games, we decided to put our engineering skills to the test, and attempt build the most advanced and consumer friendly sentry gun. After 10 months of hardcore soldering, programming, machining, and painful testing, we’re ready to release ‘The Mercenary’, the worlds first commercially available autonomous paintball sentry gun. It’ll track and automatically fire upon targets entirely on its own- by help of a camera and an onboard computer. There are a few features that put ours a head above the rest- A highly durable platform will withstand paintballs fired at over 300 feet per second, even direct hits to the camera. It can be powered by a wall socket, or a battery, and needs no external computer, or programming knowledge to run. Best of all- it runs linux.”

You want one? well, the sentry gun is not cheap, the whole system costs $3000.

A demo movie is also availble: Portable Autonomous Sentry demonstration

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