http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/autonomous-laser-guided-turret-takes-aim/ Engadget Comments for Autonomous, laser-guided turret takes aim http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/autonomous-laser-guided-turret-takes-aim/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/autonomous-laser-guided-turret-takes-aim/
http://inventgeek.com/Projects/usbairsoftturret/Overview.aspx]]>May 2nd 2007 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/autonomous-laser-guided-turret-takes-aim/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/autonomous-laser-guided-turret-takes-aim/May 2nd 2007 6:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/autonomous-laser-guided-turret-takes-aim/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/autonomous-laser-guided-turret-takes-aim/
Does inventgeeks turret shoot circles? Can it shoot at a laser pointer? Does it have any vision capabilities at all?

It was a cool project, don't get me wrong. But if you're going to compare the two, the write word should be an IMPROVEMENT, not a ripoff.]]>May 2nd 2007 9:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/autonomous-laser-guided-turret-takes-aim/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/autonomous-laser-guided-turret-takes-aim/The only problem is, they take a long time of focus on a single spot to be effective.

Personally, I'd use the lasers to blind people in a home defence role, but, its so much more effective to develop .177 CO2 pistol turrets for your home mounted to a video camera and a servo actuated swivel.

I'd actually done on e of these home defense systems before (just to see if I could) to stop squirrels from getting in my roof. It was very simple actually: a photo electric eye connected to a model rocket kit, connected to an electric bb gun. Squirrels never knew what hit em!
I'm still picking up bodies !]]>May 2nd 2007 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/autonomous-laser-guided-turret-takes-aim/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/autonomous-laser-guided-turret-takes-aim/You've misused "alas" in the post, "alas" is a negative exclamation, alas there is no video would be a proper use.

Sorry for the pedantry, but it's a pet peeve.]]>May 2nd 2007 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/autonomous-laser-guided-turret-takes-aim/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/autonomous-laser-guided-turret-takes-aim/
Get your fckn spelling right if you're going to bitch.]]>May 2nd 2007 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/autonomous-laser-guided-turret-takes-aim/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/autonomous-laser-guided-turret-takes-aim/May 2nd 2007 9:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/autonomous-laser-guided-turret-takes-aim/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/autonomous-laser-guided-turret-takes-aim/
This turret gun obviously took a serious amount of development to build it. The automated target acquiring alone would take quite a bit of work to implement. Not to mention getting everything to work together.]]>May 2nd 2007 9:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/autonomous-laser-guided-turret-takes-aim/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/autonomous-laser-guided-turret-takes-aim/May 2nd 2007 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/autonomous-laser-guided-turret-takes-aim/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/autonomous-laser-guided-turret-takes-aim/May 2nd 2007 11:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/autonomous-laser-guided-turret-takes-aim/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/autonomous-laser-guided-turret-takes-aim/May 4th 2007 9:09AM