wraggster
October 4th, 2015, 13:06
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War, huh, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing, except as an excuse to build a Raspberry Pi powered sentry turret (https://github.com/matt-desmarais/SentryTurret/) that will track and fire upon your enemies. That’s what [Matt Desmaris] decided to do, and he has released the full details of his build.
It lacks the polished elegance of most military hardware, but what do you expect of a quick and dirty hack? It’s not shiny or ominous, but it has that killer motion-tracking feature. [Matt] is using OpenCV to detect movement from a USB webcam, two servos to pan and tilt the camera and gun and a small relay to pull the trigger. Manual control over the Interwebs is also available.
We’ve seen lots of similar builds using weaponry such as rubber bands (http://hackaday.com/2015/08/13/arduino-powered-rubber-band-sentry-turret-is-not-a-lie/) and Nerf guns (http://hackaday.com/2010/06/18/nerf-sentry-turret/), but this one is a great start if you are interested in seeing how you can tie together tools like OpenCV and servos to create a camera that actively tracks movement.
http://hackaday.com/2015/10/03/raspberry-pi-sentry-turret-is-the-enemy-of-all-mankind/
War, huh, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing, except as an excuse to build a Raspberry Pi powered sentry turret (https://github.com/matt-desmarais/SentryTurret/) that will track and fire upon your enemies. That’s what [Matt Desmaris] decided to do, and he has released the full details of his build.
It lacks the polished elegance of most military hardware, but what do you expect of a quick and dirty hack? It’s not shiny or ominous, but it has that killer motion-tracking feature. [Matt] is using OpenCV to detect movement from a USB webcam, two servos to pan and tilt the camera and gun and a small relay to pull the trigger. Manual control over the Interwebs is also available.
We’ve seen lots of similar builds using weaponry such as rubber bands (http://hackaday.com/2015/08/13/arduino-powered-rubber-band-sentry-turret-is-not-a-lie/) and Nerf guns (http://hackaday.com/2010/06/18/nerf-sentry-turret/), but this one is a great start if you are interested in seeing how you can tie together tools like OpenCV and servos to create a camera that actively tracks movement.
http://hackaday.com/2015/10/03/raspberry-pi-sentry-turret-is-the-enemy-of-all-mankind/