How to kill anything that moves, while you sleep, for 10,000 dollars or less
Well, even though I regularly post some of the most interesting shit you can find on livejournal, I still recognize that the vast majority of you aren't reading this. I will now take a shit in your unwatching faces and post something really really cool just to piss you off first of all go over to http://www.whiteboxrobotics.com/ and check out their ruggedized security platform (unfinished). In essence, by using their software and hardware this thing can walk around on a preset route, be programmed to look specific ways, pan and tilt its camera certain ways, or follow any motion it detects. This is extremely awesome, and theres one way to make it much more scary and much more awesome and make yourself a robot urban soldier for about 3 grand.
First, buy the robot (est 700 max for base model, estimating 1500 roughly for this model)
Second, buy a gun (semi auto/full auto rifle type, or shotgun, subsequently saw down to roughly the length of robot.
Next, some options
First, the cheap way would be to wire a servo to the trigger and safety mechanism (safety optional) and then add it to the beautifully furnished customizable software suite that comes with the robot, label said function in software as (Kill Asshole).
Two, insert your kill asshole servo triggering subroutine into a simple script, which would go as follows
If (Sense:VideoMotion);
Run (KillAsshole);
This is a simplified program that could nonetheless be adapted to almost any programming language the platform might wish to use. The robot would then, instead of its normal function, now quite literally shoot at anything that moves, including other robots like it and practically everything while the robot itself is moving....ok so the program needs more work.
So? How to do it right?
Gimme another 7500 or so
Did you see that move "The Jackal?"
Now, mount a fully 360 degree x 270 degree gyroscope-like motorized tripod atop the bot, run the servo to the trigger (perhaps an autoreloading function?
Then, carefully using specially written software, you would have to peg the portion of the visual that is moving, taking into account the distance from the viewing reticule to the gun, and then calculating the proper aiming direction and also utilizing tracers so that the machine could correct itself. These tracers could use RF, or visual colored cues but then these cues would become moving objects, and new targets, so we'd like to keep our genocide simple. Then, simple add to the end of the program that the bot is not to cease shooting until the display stops moving, it would pause every 20 to 30 bullets or so to see if there is still motion, then continue firing if there is. Now all thats missing is a way for it to chase that motion, and know where to go and how to avoid obstacles (which is programmed in from the start in theory...)
So congratulations, you now have a robot that will kill anything that moves, and chase it, and shoot it until its dead, for a sticker cost of less that 10000 dollars
Thats less than my goddamn camry
With what you pay for the average luxury SUV, you could get a squad of five of these things.
Automated genocide just got a lot cheaper, and a whole helluvalot more fun
Still feeling safe now? America?
Cross posted to everywhere, so shoot me, I'm lonely ;0)
First, buy the robot (est 700 max for base model, estimating 1500 roughly for this model)
Second, buy a gun (semi auto/full auto rifle type, or shotgun, subsequently saw down to roughly the length of robot.
Next, some options
First, the cheap way would be to wire a servo to the trigger and safety mechanism (safety optional) and then add it to the beautifully furnished customizable software suite that comes with the robot, label said function in software as (Kill Asshole).
Two, insert your kill asshole servo triggering subroutine into a simple script, which would go as follows
If (Sense:VideoMotion);
Run (KillAsshole);
This is a simplified program that could nonetheless be adapted to almost any programming language the platform might wish to use. The robot would then, instead of its normal function, now quite literally shoot at anything that moves, including other robots like it and practically everything while the robot itself is moving....ok so the program needs more work.
So? How to do it right?
Gimme another 7500 or so
Did you see that move "The Jackal?"
Now, mount a fully 360 degree x 270 degree gyroscope-like motorized tripod atop the bot, run the servo to the trigger (perhaps an autoreloading function?
Then, carefully using specially written software, you would have to peg the portion of the visual that is moving, taking into account the distance from the viewing reticule to the gun, and then calculating the proper aiming direction and also utilizing tracers so that the machine could correct itself. These tracers could use RF, or visual colored cues but then these cues would become moving objects, and new targets, so we'd like to keep our genocide simple. Then, simple add to the end of the program that the bot is not to cease shooting until the display stops moving, it would pause every 20 to 30 bullets or so to see if there is still motion, then continue firing if there is. Now all thats missing is a way for it to chase that motion, and know where to go and how to avoid obstacles (which is programmed in from the start in theory...)
So congratulations, you now have a robot that will kill anything that moves, and chase it, and shoot it until its dead, for a sticker cost of less that 10000 dollars
Thats less than my goddamn camry
With what you pay for the average luxury SUV, you could get a squad of five of these things.
Automated genocide just got a lot cheaper, and a whole helluvalot more fun
Still feeling safe now? America?
Cross posted to everywhere, so shoot me, I'm lonely ;0)