EMT Paintball Sentry Turret renders your personal militia useless
By Darren Murph 
posted April 9th 2008 8:22AM
posted April 9th 2008 8:22AM
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posted April 9th 2008 8:22AM
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Damn!
Makes me want to reopen my old indoor arena, just so I could hang this thing from the ceiling ;)
That'd be handy for guarding my booze storage room. Damn kids always always try an' raid it.
I want to mount one of these on my car and ping everyone who doesn't indicate or doesn't have break lights.
Or you mean everyone who HAS "break" lights (as in broken)?
I meant brake lights that are broken but proof read it after hitting submit. Don't think I could edit it.
Anyway, if I hit their light even with a paint ball it probably would be broken after that.
These aren't automated - someone's got to control it from a base station somewhere. Depending on how it's wired up and how public the documentation is, though, it shouldn't be terribly hard to write something to do the automation.
If automation was somehow incorporated I'd plant it in my yard and laugh when I saw all of the painted cats and dogs in my neighborhood that "strayed" onto my property... along with their pelted owners.
How boring - a camera mounted on a remote-control pan-tilt platform.
We wanna see AUTONOMOUS ability!
Then you can pop off the paintball thingee and plop on yer fave Glock...
Yeah but how would you do it? Motion Sensor, IF, Heat? Getting a machine to tell the difference from living and non living, moving and not moving, etc etc is more difficult then it seems.
> ...Getting a machine to tell the difference from living
> and non living, moving and not moving, etc etc is more
> difficult then it seems.
!!!
If it moves, kill it!
Video cameras can and do have software for them that compares the previous image to the current image. If something moves or changes in the two pictures, you could have it armed to shoot. You may want to add a second or two delay just so the target gets hit and can't jump back behind cover easily.
But, you would have to have something like a remote switch/ car alarm type thing that would allow you to disarm it for yourself so you don't get shot at.
This is great other than if they then invent a portal gun, and a companion cube...
"Where are you?" "There you are."
"I forgive you."
"There is no cake"
Love that game!!
That's the first thing I thought of when I saw those.
make it autonomous with say rfid based "allowed entry tags" ... then fill this baby with a mix of permanant ink paintballs and peperballs and solid rubber balls, and you have a real security defense that even would work for government buildings
hell
get a few thousand of htose and string them across the mexican border :) tada no more walls needed just an army of peper and rubber ball spewing autonomous turrets :)
Does it support the Pelco-D protocol for Pan/Tilt?
I wonder how portable it is. It seems really useful for scenario games, but would be a PITA to lug that thing across crossfire to get to a good defensive posistion.
It would have to be set up quickly and not have too many problems with dirt, as well.
"There is no cake"
"Ahhhhhhh"
"Outstanding. Now all we need is a deck of cards."
I hope it comes equipped sound effects to make it sound just like the turrets in Half-Life 2.
Spy's sappin' my sentry!
Dangit, I thought I was gonna make the first TF2-related comment.
can i load it with ball bearings?
XD
Cities should install these on top of street-lamp poles in "seriously dodgy locales". Maybe hook the thing up the gunshot detectors they have scattered around http://www.rajivshah.com/camera/camera.jpg.
I know a paintball doesn't compare to a bullet, but it would still be fun to see paintballs raining down from the heavens onto drug-dealers etc.
My spring loaded air rifle can skewer things with just a cut tip, so you could modify the turret and load it with cue tips.
While at first glance $1400 seems like a lot of money, in comparison to many tournament level paintball markers its about average price. Its not uncommon at all to pay $1000 for a quality gun.
Tripod + electric tilt and pan head + video camera + control transmitter/receiver. I think I might be able to get that for less than $1400.
I had one of these. Someone stole it.
ouch someone stole your sentry turret.. thats just sad
Cost of $1400 and up actually is on-par with high-end paintball markers, which have been known to cost as much as $1800 complete with custom fire controlled circuit boards and OLED displays.
You probably could use a Camera Trap (device you strap to a tree in the woods to take pictures of Bigfoot)as a trigger device so you could automatically hit anything that moves and have photos to prove it.
This + nightvision + head/motion tracking
OMG!!!, the weapons from my NES games are becoming real!!!
Here's a word for a more pithy statement: obviates.
Hey, here's a video of a better one, that has motion tracking! should be cheaper too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxBa5bQfTGc