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Automated Sentry Robots
jimbob5 writes "New Scientist reports that you can now buy your own automated Room Defender. 'Who would like this gift? Any child, or anyone who saw the director's cut of Aliens and dreamed of owning one of those automated sentries.'" The New Scientist gift guide looks pretty useful.
Once triggered, it issues a verbal warning then fires a warning shot (a foam disc).
.357 to the thing, rigs up a solenoid trigger-puller set up to activate when the "foam discs" are supposed to launch.
Oh yeah. I can see it now. How long before someone bolts their
Jehovah's witnesses might have something to worry about.
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I've wanted to build one of these things for years. However my goals were a little higher. Complete motion tracking camera/servo system, and it would have fired paintballs or airsoft BBs... Too bad I never thought of the downgrade to common toy as a great selling point. Guess I'm and engineer and not a businessman.
I want this! But I won't get it. We have a little one running around and I can see what would happen some early morning around 4am...
"Mommy, Daddy... I had a bad dream!"
"Exit the room or there will be... trouble!" (fires warning shots, 1/4 payload)
"AAAAARGGGGHHH!!!!! A MONSTER!!!!!" (flees, heavily pelted by nerf discs)
"You were warned! Have a good day and stay out of... trouble."
"ZZzzzzZZZzzZZZZZzzzZZZ" (mom & dad (in unison))
"Waaaaaaahhhhhh" (cries to sleep)
On second thought... that could make for some interesting Skinner experiments where we actually get to sleep for a whole night! Although the little one might not get to sleep at all, living in fear of the menacing turret monster. Hey maybe this could breed a new form of learned Tourette's Syndrome?? I mean what else is going to happen after being pelted by a nerf turret living in your parent's room for your whole childhood, until all you can do is swear randomly. (all the moderators with Tourette's are going to love this comment... can you imagine their reaction??? At least they won't be able to mod this down -- for a while)
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All you have to do is train your dog to sit/stay obediently, then get him to take the shots for you until the ammo runs out. You're free to pillage the room unmolested after that.
I have an earlier model. The biggest change is that instead of shooting discs, it howls and then poops on the carpet.
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This isn't impressive.
If it said anything about actually TRACKING the target, I'd be impressed.
As it is, it appears to be little more than a light sensor attatched to a rapid-fire nerf gun. i.e. Dumb-fire, no aiming.
If it says otherwise, I'd love to know... but I saw nothing to indicate that.
I was going to get one of these but then realized it wouldnt take long for wife wife to figure out how to disable it with an EMP grenade.
Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my hard disk?
....wouldn't be as fun as liberating my sister's room. I want a unilateral robot room liberator/democracy imposer.
You seem to be at conflict with your boss. Have you ever tried watching porn together? It should bring the two of you closer together.
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What happens when the super intelligent monkeys get their hands on these? Seriously people, we can defeat the monkeys and we can defeat the robots, but not at the same time!!!!!
She will likely have to defeat my current wife in combat first...
That's a great idea! We can oil them both up and broadcast it live. The first ever Slashdot Pay-Per-View.
BTW the first yahoo to make the "Broad-cast" pun gets a -1 mod.
Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my hard disk?
So,
My parents had a flower bed that the neighbourhood cats used as their litter box.
Dad got fed up with that and built a little contraption.
He rigged up a booby trap with a wire and a clothes peg. When the cats tripped the wire the clothes peg pulled off and broke a circuit with a battery and one of those old style magnesium flashes that one used to have for cameras in the 70s.
So the cats would walk in there at night, with pupils dilated to the size of grapes and preparing to do their business.
And trip the wire and.... *flash*!!!
The wire got tripped a few times. Once per cat in the area I would presume. And then never again.
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I can't quite put my finger on it, but something seems odd about the term "5-quadrant."
I'm getting me one and modifying it so it shoots saw blades instead of foam disks. Ain't NOBODY getting near my stack of porn!
Be very careful if you're going to be setting up shooting blades around your stack of porn. If there's any chance you forget to deactivate it when you're "in the mood", with all the blood out of your brain, you may accidentally "disable" yourself from ever using your porn again.