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Robotics Idle

Student Makes Real-Life Portal Turret 91

lukehopewell1 writes "A Penn State robotics student has gone to the effort of building a working, automated turret from the video game series Portal. Powered by a webcam, Arduino boards and hacked up USB-missile launchers, this is one serious piece of kit that is just as adorable as its in-game counterpart. "

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Student Makes Real-Life Portal Turret

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  • by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @01:15PM (#40007099)

    I go to a Penn State branch campus. Considering that the main campus only gives each person $1000 and one semester to design and build their project, you cant say that this is not incredible! Yes it can certainly be better, but with the monetary and time restraints you can not argue with the final result!

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