Guard your home with an automated paintball gun
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Are you ready to guard your home with a non-toxic, non-lethal armory that sounds more fun than serious? Some fine folks have decided to automate a paintball rifle apparatus to go off once a motion detector senses movement. Why waste those precious (and sometimes, useless) home safety measure sirens when you can deluge a home intruder with paint?
Now, after watching the rather expanded video clip above, you may decide that is not for you during the hustle-bustle of the holiday season. whether you are one of the chosen few that do have ample instance during that part of the year, and are handy with the electronics and the mechanical aspects of that project, you could have the coolest home protection system on your block (or town).
Requirements are a motion-activated defense system (or just a sensor), a microcontroller, a red laser pointer (we all have one of those), and some serious elbow grease and patience. But, once you’ve seen the final aftereffect, that is one kick-ass project. Highly recommended — and whether you build it, we’d love to produce out from ya!
[via Engadget]
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Original post by Brian White
I would love to see some different mods on this. For example, parallax.com sells sonar sensors, that could be used in place of the laser so the gun could be completely hidden.