I want to build a "sniper robot"

"Ignoramus12003" wrote in message news:YZOdnfAa1LeELiHPnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com...

Hitting the target with a laser pointer would require solving most of the recognition and acquisition problems.

This is an excellent point!

Search for sentry gun and there's some interesting information available.

RogerN

Gonna use a full-auto AK?

I wonder if you could modify to your needs, one of the OpenSource kits that are out there.

Googlit "robotic target acquisition kit"

I had the 90rd drum at the Machine Gun Meet that time. Man, those go through rounds like crazy. I had it on semi until I got the feel, then let loose on a van. My burst looked like a heartbeat pulse and the long slow curve into a straight line as I raked the van side. The owner liked it. Those are fun guns. It cost me $25 to do that, so feeding one would be very expensive. A mini gun would be even worse, using up one annual paycheck per day of use, I reckon. Pass!

I'm still holding out for a nice, quiet, vaporizing laser. It would:

A) Keep thumpers from getting to the door. and B) Remove any of that pesky "evidence" stuff. and C) Eliminate local dogs who shit on the lawn/cats who pee on my porch. and D) Be lots of fun to watch (for very brief, smoky periods.)

I'd use a swamp cooler housing with a small motor to raise the case enough to shoot under. That won't look too strange on the roof. Now, where can I find a nice 50kv laser for a Benjy or less...?

The whole point of robotic targeting should be one shot accuracy and ammo conservation. Locate target, fire once accurately, if target is still moving fire again accurately, repeat until no movement.

Iggy! It's not worth it! Just build a better fence around your warehouse!

Disposing of bodies is _always_ harder than you think it'll be.

That's a good way to separate the tasks. Usually when I approach something like that I like to do the dicey part first, then do the "I know I can do this with enough effort" part later. And, in this case, I see the targeting and shooting part as dicier, so that's the right place to start.

Iggy -- post updates if you do this, it sounds like fun! And when you find that you always lag a moving target, say so: I'll share some control rules with you that'll fix that problem.

To make it a little harder, how about having several sound sensors and have it direct a laser at a flying mosquito.

Dan

Wouldn't work on the roof of a moving car...

Shoot at any sound? You might as well have it defend its Off switch.

Tim Wescott on Fri, 27 Dec 2013 12:33:03

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That is why the Vortex 2000 Perimeter Sentry System came with an "Perp_B_Gone" option, which would amp up the particle beam in order to take care of such ...issues.

I did not say shoot at any sound. Iggy is smart enough to understand that shooting at a flying mosquito would include analysing the sound to determi ne what is making the noise. I understand that female mosquito's have a d ifferent pitch than mail mosquito's. I would shoot both, but Iggy may only want to shoot the females. They are the ones that bite. And of course o ne would need to program in limits on where to point the limits. Do not wa nt to irritate the neighbors.

Dan

"Jim Wilkins" on Fri, 27 Dec 2013 15:59:06

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I wanted to do something like that as a "bug zapper"

Sounds like an idea too.

-- pyotr filipivich "With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone."

Gunner Asch on Fri, 27 Dec 2013 01:40:10 -0800 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

"Paint ball Sentinel Gun" Or "sentinel gun project." If you can make one for a nerfgun ....

-- pyotr filipivich "With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone."

Iggy, I think I read an article about a game ranch in Texas that was already doing a mobile version of this for handicapped hunters. Basically a hunt by wire method. It was not automated. Just remote control, but they may have already solved some of the problems you may run into.

How do you mail mosquitos? ;-)

"Michael A. Terrell" on Fri, 27 Dec 2013

Very small envelopes. They can't open he standard size ones.

-- pyotr filipivich "With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone."

Well, you could work on your Weirding Technique until Muad'Dib was proud of you, Pete. That'll teach those bugs to come into your home.

Speaking of which, I saw a fat, gray, furry body hasten through my kitchen this morning when I woke up. 5 minutes later, there were 4 mousetraps set. Hope I don't step on one with my bare feet. The killer in me is waiting expectantly to hear a loud SNAP quite soon.