D.I.Y. Scrap Metal Auto-Turret (RaspberryPi Auto-Tracking Airsoft Sentry?!)
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Ordinarily I would explain why I built a project first... but frankly, the answer this time is "just because I wanted to!" So this is how I built my homemade autonomous AND manually controlled airsoft sentry turret!
This project was a great introductory project to the world of RaspberryPi for me personally. If you choose to replicate this project, there isn't all that much to it if you approach methodically, and I think it's actually more simple than many might realize!
Here is the video from the Hacker Shack KZread channel that I followed to create this:
• How to Make a Raspberr...
I have been interested in airsoft and paintball for many years, and this might be my final push to getting myself into some airsoft games with all kinds of D.I.Y. gadgets... If that's something that you want to see, let me know in the comments and by leaving a "Like" on this video!
Also, yes, I will be testing the turret against my invisibility shield sometime in the future...
I hope you enjoyed and learned something from this video! Make safely and know that I cannot be held responsible for any damages to persons or property as a result of your choice to build this project for yourself.
Best regards,
-Tate
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Alright, let's try this again! I turned up the audio volume and re-uploaded, so let me know what you guys think! Thank you for letting me know and helping me to put out better quality content! I hope you enjoyed the video!
@speaker1449
3 жыл бұрын
Perfect
@randomn6473
3 жыл бұрын
@@speaker1449 Much better?
@coryandrum
3 жыл бұрын
@@randomn6473 I was not bad on computer for me, but does sound higher.
@randomn6473
3 жыл бұрын
@@coryandrum Same here. I thought where it was before sounded about average from my computer but I guess others didn't have the same experience.
@AmjadKhan-cm5sm
3 жыл бұрын
kzread.info/dash/bejne/pntrrM6YpqjLZbg.html
Now you just need to make a dispenser for the IRL TF2 Engineer experience
@randomn6473
3 жыл бұрын
I need to try that game at some point. XD
@ferret901
3 жыл бұрын
@@randomn6473 Ahaha. It's a great game. Little basic by modern standards, but that's a lot of its charm
@jamess1787
3 жыл бұрын
More like the BFG, needs much less accuracy =D
@i_critique_your_vanity7216
3 жыл бұрын
Use a gun... and if that doesn’t work, use more gun.
@randomn6473
3 жыл бұрын
@@i_critique_your_vanity7216 The American way. XD
I need like 6 of these for my garden to keep the raccoons and rabbits out of it....
@fuupdaass275
3 жыл бұрын
@D M they get the catapult over the fence
@musclesmouse
3 жыл бұрын
Need them for dog walker’s.
@ryanmcewen415
3 жыл бұрын
@@musclesmouse you might. But fortunately for me my yard is nowhere near pedestrians or their pets
@erny1601
3 жыл бұрын
tha raccoons may be gone, but your garden will be yellow the next day :D
@BrandonDeft
3 жыл бұрын
Soon China and the communist Globalist there U.N. Regime. INFOWARS
This thing would be a hundred times cooler if you added turret dialog from "Portal" "Is anyone there?" "There you are" "Gotcha" "Are you still there?"
@NerdZEY
3 жыл бұрын
Perferct to make fear
@asterlofts1565
3 жыл бұрын
Or maybe... Sentry TF2 sounds or Half-Life Turrets sounds...
@jevinkames
Жыл бұрын
I'd prefer mw2 sentry gun sounds
The thing KZread was made for! I approve this madness
Absolutely excellent construction considering the tools and materials you had at your disposal. This is the first video I've seen of yours and plan on sticking around for more content.
This needs to be painted white and say "Hello"
@vgman94
3 жыл бұрын
...Portal reference, by chance?
@amazoniancustodian
3 жыл бұрын
@@vgman94 the cake is a lie
@JohnsonJLB
3 жыл бұрын
It's "Hello? Are you still there?"
@stusatwork30
3 жыл бұрын
That stupid doorbell camera whistle would be even better
@GrandDawggy
3 жыл бұрын
I'm guessing you only played portal and not half life.
You honestly have such a strong proclivity for mechanical engineering. All of your solutions were efficient and explanations were intuitive.
This is one of the coolest projects I've seen man good job.
I love the versality of the RPi. You know, a guy can really make some interesting stuff powered by it. Good job! As for the audio: it is near perfect now, at least for me. 👍🏻
@randomn6473
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for sticking around and letting me know!
I did something very similar to this but I'm using laser's. You can't rob my house if you can't see.
@fuupdaass275
3 жыл бұрын
Link?
@amazoniancustodian
3 жыл бұрын
@@fuupdaass275 kzread.info/dash/bejne/qqp6vMyoZbPNd5M.html
@gordonpromish9218
3 жыл бұрын
@@amazoniancustodian oh, you monster
This deserves more views. I hope this becomes a trend for builders on youtube.
Lots of fun! Gotta love those huge old Sears glue guns!
now all you gotta do is make it bigger and put one on the tank
@vgman94
3 жыл бұрын
And improve the munitions, haha.
Sentry goin´ up!
Awesome video. I've been talking about doing this for some time now. I really like the ammo can usage.
Great video!👍 I'm addicted to your channel! Keep up the great vids!😁
Randomn great video man! Keep up with the cool projects, and your editing is getting really good👍🏻
Turrets and explosions...you've come to the right place. - Deep Rock Galactic Engineer
Good idea to keep the deer outta the garden👍pretty cool
The music when you are testing around 20:00 for some reason reminds me of playing Goldeneye on those outdoor Siberian winter levels.
Next generation weapons, nice job!
Neat project. Looks like you had plenty of room inside the ammo box to run some gears. This would help with the accuracy of raising and lowering.
As others have said well done. Loving the IRL TF2 comment from Justin..
And voila! Now the squirrels stay out of my garden.
@spdfatomicstructure
6 ай бұрын
Until you find that one has been trained by MI6 and has sapped the sentry gun
this is the coolest thing ever! Thanks!
Omg, my dream, i want the same, good job, congrats
Great video! I always look forward to your content!
@randomn6473
3 жыл бұрын
I appreciate that!
@thewjs3738
3 жыл бұрын
@@randomn6473 You're welcome! As I commented on the first upload I do what I can to support your channel. Would love to see more frequent videos for sure but I can definitely understand the time crunch.
Ramp this up a little and that would be such an amazing thing to use in a game, well done!
@epsilonadept7301
2 жыл бұрын
BING CHILLING
@fatsnowman123ert
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah some object tracking added in, a gear base the motor can run easier and faster, up the cams 3 on each side, of those 3 have one be an IR cam/Night Vision Cam/regular cam, add in 1 distance and sonar sensor between each camera group, up the battery pack to a 12V car batter and add a solar panel roof. Also noticed all the wires need to be shortened up and fully shielded. You'll need to modify the code quite a lot but the combined effort should take care of all the short falls seen in the video.
Very nice Job! 👍
congratulation friend, nice project!
Come on people! This guy has hundreds of thousands of views and only 102 thousand subscribers. This guy os talented as hell like alot of other youtubers that have millions of subbers why is this guy any different. Im subed and this is the second vid i have ever seen of him. Today is August 15 2021 @ 3:27 pm central time.
Awesome tech!
So hard not say the ''G'' word xD very nice project
Hiiii, I found a bit later this video, I did something similar, I used a old wall fan, with a glock, and a old webcam and pc, and used a haarcascade full body, It works like a charm, cheers great work, keep going.
This is a DIY version of the Super Aegis 2. Thanks for the vid.
Nice work! I tried to get this working a while ago, any chance of a copy of your working code?
I really like it good job
Awesome vid dude. Would like to see a paintball marker version.
Fkng outstanding job!👍👍👍👍👍
Great Job!
Reminds me of the paintball turret from a few years ago. That thing was running off a NETBOOK.
I would set up some sort of tri-camera setup, to where you have 1 regular camera, 1 night-vision camera, 1 thermal/infrared camera. That should prevent the camera from losing target as easily. I would also play with some sort of facial recognition software in the camera, so it can at least try to distinguish between targets.
Nice craftsmanship
What!! Wow that's impressive
@randomn6473
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Impressive...very impressive
Sentry going up!
Looks like the KZread captions still caught your 'blaster' slip ups. Cool video though.
Neat. I remember trying to do this with openCV and servos a few years ago but I could never get the servo controller to communicate properly.
@randomn6473
3 жыл бұрын
Oh interesting! This actually uses OpenCV as well!
@thenextproblem8001
3 жыл бұрын
Mee too! Do you mind the share ?
Dude, this is awesome and pretty much exactly what I'm looking to do with my own airsoft turret. Do you happen to have the STL files for the housing you made though? I have the exact same airsoft gun, but I'm borrowing my friend's 3d printer to build the housing and it would be super helpful to already have something that I know fits the gun I have.
That was pretty cool.
What would happen if you tipped it over? Will it freak out spin around on the ground and shoot all over the place and then shut down?
This is sick
if fallout were only that easy, we'd be building turrets for our settlements
I see a good use to this knowledge
And the next project might be an artificial eye. 😆 Good that you showed the power from the thing. I would never try this without protection goggles.😉
Hey I am starting to work on a similar project using an airsoft minigun. How much weight can the motors reliably move?
"Hey look, Buddy. I am engineer, that means I solve problems..." Meet the Engineer, Valve
Very cool. You could maybe make a knockdown target to disable it if you planned to use it in a game? Nothing worse than being shot at by something you can't fight back against. Then again the tracking is fairly limited and it could be area denial. Would be up to the site manager I suppose.
ATF will be visiting you soon!
@aldenhauser9555
3 жыл бұрын
Automatic transmission fluid? Oh that reminds me I have a leak on my power steering I need to fix...
@aldenhauser9555
3 жыл бұрын
Yo update I fixed it. It turns out that air was not in fact leaking in. It was frothing up because the filter was clogged!
@vgman94
3 жыл бұрын
@@aldenhauser9555 Holy fuk 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@stijn2472
3 жыл бұрын
@@aldenhauser9555 Did you manage to repace the filter?
@fuupdaass275
3 жыл бұрын
@@aldenhauser9555 ya What this guy 👆 said?
Good job agent.
Really cool vid! Can you do this with a FLIR thermal camera for night or low-light use? Food for thought ;)
Great job I noticed some latency . can you improve the sensitive?
Great work
@randomn6473
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
I really need to know one how accurate is this and how fast is the refresh rate of the vision processing would it be able to hit something like a football from 15 20 ft away
At one point you mentioned that you decided to go with printing a part instead of just fixing a (part of ?) the gun directly. IMHO the more you repurpose and minimize amount of unnecessary work, the cooler it will be. Thanks for the video
Insert the obligatory "Aliens" references. "A and B guns, tracking and firing. *Multiple* targets." Seriously, you should sell these as a side-gig.
@skiball83
3 жыл бұрын
Beat me to the reference.
Bro, you got a nice little Ted Kaczynski shed over there, and with your camouflage clothes its spot on 😉 I would almost kill for having a well equipped shed with a lot of scrap metal laying around. I dig it, awesome! Good job with that turret also. 😊
that thing is awesome
I thought about building on of these about a year ago. just a bit of AI to track faces or bodies, a few lines of code to center it on that object, and fire. Then mount any gun and equip a trigger pulling device.
Love to see one of these with one of those mini gun ones ... but whom has 2k laying around for that experiment I don’t know. This would be really cool using some photo eye sensors or proxy sensors in the sourcing position then it would give you 360 degrees of detection
I would tag GoPro on socials because I have a hard time with an Airsoft gun breaking an Action Camera like that
@EvilSpyBoy
3 жыл бұрын
Also check out ebay for K40 if you are going to do a lot of acrylic cutting. It was my first cheap laser and it only has a small bed + needs a bit of modding to make it safe and useable.... but I looked away for a second and wondered why you were sanding the acrylic to make it fit instead of recutting it and then realised - not everyone has a laser :D Edit - there are bigger safer ones that cost more and have a cutting bed bigger than an A4 piece of paper. I upgraded to a Beambox Pro which does 400x600 (cheaper than a Glowforge to get here by a lot). Just comes down to how much you want to spend
Sentry goin' up!
Hey what would you charge me to build a robust camera Turret ? One that holds like 5lb that works on wireless remote control ( I have a new one for $80 I bought ) I was all excited to Mount it on my truck roof and the dam optics my Flir is to heavy. I would like a Mount I could drill to my big bed tool box and the turret I can drop into the Mount and drive at low speed to scan the woods. You could use it in the channel for a project to.
When are we gonna have a level 3 of this sentry?
This will come in handy
Could it be done with motion detection like a security light?
Thanks for the tips I did one myself but the thing shot down my son, what should I do now ?
Do you have a tutorial or a walk through? I'm having issues with opencv 3.1..
hey! working on a similar project, planning on making one that folds out of a pistol case
I am confused. How does this thing I'd and track? Is this in the software? Did Hacker shack build that recognition system for you?
Hey there kids, prior Electronics Tech for USMC here (Electronic Field Service Engineer for Civ Equiv), who served with Infantry. Pro tip for cooling systems for air fan systems like this. To help the life span of your equipment, place the air intake and air exhaust opposite of each other and have your higher energy consuming systems nearest the exhaust port, avoid cross style patterns, and do not have too much/many opening for "air flow" as doing so will actually cut back on the efficiency of your cooling systems. Also, if you plan on having equipment like this anywhere close to being out in the elements for extended periods of time, I recommend trading out for a closed cooling system, oil, water, or even just a Heat Sink Radiator system. If you're doing builds like this and want some good edvice from a guy who's seen it all in practice (not just theory) feel free to hit me up!
What did you use for gears on your rotating plate
Would it be easier to just manually control it? Im sure the auto lock thing was a pain to program
How did the motor connect to the collar exactly? Thanks awesome project btw.
Randomn: "placing a sentry!" "sometimes you need a little less gun."
@randomn6473
3 жыл бұрын
"Less gun?" That doesn't register for me haha.
@TheMacheteFiloso
3 жыл бұрын
@@randomn6473 TF2 Engineer dialog.
Good job
Hello. Do you have an academic work or project that I can reference in my studies. I need related work and my study is very similar in some ways to yours.
does it work if you take the lap top out of range?
nice 1!
I dreames of building that as a kid. Just remote controlled was what I wanted
Addind this to my to do list 🤘
Nice job. As far as tracking goes you could go a few different routes for more precise results. LiDAR would be the obvious choice but you could also use motion detection software or an infrared heat sensor to track the enemy movement accurately. Well done though. Great to see.
How do you prevent friendly fire? Is there an IFF system?
so cool. for airsoft of course
When norm starts using secret millatary tech
You can’t fool me Skynet!
not bad there is another due on here that made a scary fast and accurate one a while back
Other people in air soft match: why that banging his sentry gun Me: *laughs in engineer*
"Hey buddy, I'm an engineer, and that means I solve problems..."