NEWS: Gadget Freak Design Contest winners

Posted on 04. Sep, 2010 by Freddy Aikens in News

Gadget Freak Design Contest

Grand Prize Winner: Infrared seeking sentinel.

If you were thinking of entering… well… theres always next year.

THE DETAILS

Appvader quotable quote

I can think of at least 3 places I’d need one in my house.

Developer :

Rick Prescott

The words

Rick Prescott outfitted a Nerf® Vulcan EBF-25TM foam dart shooting machine gun with an array of Devantech TPA81 thermopile sensors, all controlled by an ATmega168, to create this wicked Aliens-style heat-tracking autocannon:

“An idea sparked in my mind one day while walking the toy gun isle in a store with my kid and later that evening learning of the workings of a thermopile array while surfing the internet. The result is this infrared seeking sentinel which joins a realistically priced infrared sensor to a realistically operatable Nerf® machine gun to create a slightly less deadly yet still highly deterring automated machine. Personally I have grand plans to deploy the infrared seeking sentinel facing the entrance of my work cubical in order to speed interaction with less desirable visitors.”

Runners up can be seen here.