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Student Makes Real-Life Portal Turret

Posted by samzenpus on from the could-you-come-over-here? dept.

lukehopewell1 writes "A Penn State robotics student has gone to the effort of building a working, automated turret from the video game series Portal. Powered by a webcam, Arduino boards and hacked up USB-missile launchers, this is one serious piece of kit that is just as adorable as its in-game counterpart. "

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  1. Awesome! by scubamage · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Great job kid! Keep it up and you could have an awesome job at the army corps of engineers, or at some other defense contractor. Great work.

  2. Mini-gun by Sperbels · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think a rubber band mini-gun would have been more suitable for this project. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7UIoYGSVoQ

  3. Needs a lot of work. by Lumpy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Tracking is really slow. it should be tracking so fast that you dont get the jerky motion.
    Add in predictive aiming and you have something that may get you a job for life working at a military contractor.

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