New Motion Tracking Auto Turret Demonstration Video

Question posted by: David24 (Newbie) on February 18th, 2008 11:18 PM

It's on YouTube and the video id is aNTH_8IA0XQ or you can just search for "Motion Tracking Auto Turret"

Check it out and let me know what you think..

The Video demonstrates how the Turret will follow the center of the largest moving object in its field of vision or it can be manually aimed. It also has target anticipation features for improved accuracy of faster targets. It can be fired manually or automatically and accounts for rounds remaining. I built the turret myself but the software was written in Visual C# by myself & Jeremy at onetouchsolutions dot net. i believe it performs better than the other videos i've seen of similar projects. what do you think? by the way, this is not, by any means, the final version of the turret or the software.

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Studlyami

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February 19th, 2008
12:18 AM
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Re: New Motion Tracking Auto Turret Demonstration Video

Nice, i would like to see the auto track/fire mode working. In this project how much of the equipment was 3rd part and what did you create yourself? Did you do any of the electrical design or is this just integrating C# with the 3rd party hardware? Any chance of seeing some of the completed code?

On a side note this post is probably better for the software development forum.

David24

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February 19th, 2008
01:24 AM
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Re: New Motion Tracking Auto Turret Demonstration Video

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Originally Posted by Studlyami

as it clearly states, I built the turret (by myself, from material from home depot and 3 servos). jeremy and i wrote the software. in the video it clearly states that the turret is aiming by itself. therefore, you did see the 'auto track' mode working.

Studlyami

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February 19th, 2008
04:30 AM
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Re: New Motion Tracking Auto Turret Demonstration Video

I didn't mean to knock it down any i think thats awesome. What i meant was the auto fire (in the video it said it was unpredictable how so?). I also see some type of a controller chip and the last i checked those weren't sold at home depot, but i have seen people who have taken apart some type of lawn/ light things that have a motion detector and have used them in creative ways.

David24

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February 22nd, 2008
04:55 PM
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Re: New Motion Tracking Auto Turret Demonstration Video

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Originally Posted by Studlyami

the chip is a miniSSC servo controller. the reason we don't use auto fire is that people forget auto fire is on..the turret is very indiscriminate about who, or what, it's shooting

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