Student Makes Real-Life Portal Turret

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. "

Awesome!

[scubamage]

Great job kid! Keep it up and you could have an awesome job at the army corps of engineers, or at some other defense contractor. Great work.

Mini-gun

[Sperbels]

I think a rubber band mini-gun would have been more suitable for this project. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7UIoYGSVoQ [youtube.com]

Needs a lot of work.

[Lumpy]

Tracking is really slow. it should be tracking so fast that you dont get the jerky motion.
Add in predictive aiming and you have something that may get you a job for life working at a military contractor.