azredhawk44
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I've been reading up heavily on Arduino boards, which are little hobbyist microcontrollers capable of being programmed by an end user to take input from various sensors and then use user-programmed logic to either generate output, or make a mechanical action (via a motor or other device attached to a circuit on it).
People make self-deterministic yet simplistic robots out of them.
Here's some, playing "soccer."
http://www.youtube.com/user/TeamVossius
I'd like to try and build a self-deterministic robot that can out-shoot me. Elements would include:
- potential target detection via a NTSC camera mounted at the focal point of a scope
- target analysis to make certain the target conforms to expected standards
- range finding capability
- temperature and barometric sensor analysis
- wind speed and direction analysis
- ballistic computation
- mechanical adjustment to compensate for above factors
- a firing circuit interrupt that mechanically breaks the circuit between the board and the motor/solenoid for the trigger actuation unless the user assesses the safety of the shot and closes the firing circuit interrupt
- ability to fire a semiautomatic rifle, wait for recoil and then assess environmental factors again for a new shot, then fire once the decision makes logical sense and a new "all clear" is delivered via the firing circuit interrupt.
- eventually, I'd like to have "it" entered into a High Power Match or similar environment, and I would program it with appropriate authorization for the number of shots in a given string.
A couple concerns:
#1 (The Big One): Would this be a machine gun? Would the definition of a "trigger operation" be simply turning the computer on? Can a person get a ruling on this from the ATF tech branch without actually building it and sending it to them for a ruling? Can such a project be acceptably approved for research purposes, either possibly by DARPA or by the ATF tech branch?
#2: No reason for a shoulder stock on such a device. Would such a device need to be licensed as an SBR? I'm thinking the final device would end up looking like the .50 caliber platform from the movie "Shooter."
Obviously the project is very complicated and would be accomplished in a series of small steps, starting probably with a simple tripod robot with a laser pointer to "fire" rather than an actual gun, probably working on incredibly simplistic black/white targets at ranges from a foot to perhaps 10 feet. That would probably keep me busy for at least several months. Long range target detection may end up being beyond the processing capabilities of an Arduino board. I'd be playing with a simple laser pointer for quite some time before I got ready to strap an actual rifle to such a platform.
Terminator/Matrix logic would be left out, I think. Arduinos are only 16mhz computers. Pretty small.
People make self-deterministic yet simplistic robots out of them.
Here's some, playing "soccer."
http://www.youtube.com/user/TeamVossius
I'd like to try and build a self-deterministic robot that can out-shoot me. Elements would include:
- potential target detection via a NTSC camera mounted at the focal point of a scope
- target analysis to make certain the target conforms to expected standards
- range finding capability
- temperature and barometric sensor analysis
- wind speed and direction analysis
- ballistic computation
- mechanical adjustment to compensate for above factors
- a firing circuit interrupt that mechanically breaks the circuit between the board and the motor/solenoid for the trigger actuation unless the user assesses the safety of the shot and closes the firing circuit interrupt
- ability to fire a semiautomatic rifle, wait for recoil and then assess environmental factors again for a new shot, then fire once the decision makes logical sense and a new "all clear" is delivered via the firing circuit interrupt.
- eventually, I'd like to have "it" entered into a High Power Match or similar environment, and I would program it with appropriate authorization for the number of shots in a given string.
A couple concerns:
#1 (The Big One): Would this be a machine gun? Would the definition of a "trigger operation" be simply turning the computer on? Can a person get a ruling on this from the ATF tech branch without actually building it and sending it to them for a ruling? Can such a project be acceptably approved for research purposes, either possibly by DARPA or by the ATF tech branch?
#2: No reason for a shoulder stock on such a device. Would such a device need to be licensed as an SBR? I'm thinking the final device would end up looking like the .50 caliber platform from the movie "Shooter."
Obviously the project is very complicated and would be accomplished in a series of small steps, starting probably with a simple tripod robot with a laser pointer to "fire" rather than an actual gun, probably working on incredibly simplistic black/white targets at ranges from a foot to perhaps 10 feet. That would probably keep me busy for at least several months. Long range target detection may end up being beyond the processing capabilities of an Arduino board. I'd be playing with a simple laser pointer for quite some time before I got ready to strap an actual rifle to such a platform.
Terminator/Matrix logic would be left out, I think. Arduinos are only 16mhz computers. Pretty small.