What you're thinking of can't be any worse than the guys who build and fight the model war ships. I'm sure some places even those are tecnically illegal. If...
Why not shoot Ping Pong balls instead? Dan ... From: SeattleRobotics@yahoogroups.com [mailto:SeattleRobotics@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Rob Purdy Sent:...
I couldn't get that MPG link to work, but here is the main page that has the working link just below the pictures. Very cool video and a bot idea I could get...
You might get into trouble if they decide your "enter" key is the trigger, since pressing it once could result in more than one round being fired, which would...
Erin Corliss
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Jan 2, 2006 2:17 am
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"You might get into trouble if they decide your "enter" key is the trigger, since pressing it once could result in more than one round being fired, which would...
I used to be heavy into paintball. They have full automatic paintball guns. In fact I have been at meets where we went to an army base that had about 15...
A "semi-auto getting stuck" kind of brings you into a whole new world of technicalities, though. I think if you make a new semi-auto firearm you have to get...
Erin Corliss
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Jan 2, 2006 10:03 am
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... Actually, the rules are very technical, but as long as the firing is interrupted by the seer each time, it's not an automatic. That's why some rather...
Tape Switch does sell small quantities, also "variety packs" for if you are not sure of what to get. Very good product, easy to use, and they are helpful with...
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Jan 2, 2006 5:46 pm
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... Or maybe get a fedral job ..... http://www.nosc.mil/robots/images/robart3e.jpg http://www.nosc.mil/robots/land/robart/robart.html...
You've heard of the case of the shoestring machinegun, right? ;) http://www.jpfo.org/shoestring.jpg "In 1996, FTB examined and classified a 14-inch long...
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Of course, these refer to firearms... a paint-ball or soft-air pellet gun do not fall in this category. Michael...
Michael Holder
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Let me say again, there are already fully automatic paintball guns. Doug Leppard ... From: SeattleRobotics@yahoogroups.com ...
Funny, I hear that anything that emits a projectile through a barrel is grossly considered a firearm. That's how they can charge people shooting cats with...
So rather than having a single barrel that fires multiple shots I was thinking of having 12 barels that would each shoot a single shot in sequence. That way I...
The URL seems dead, but I think I know the one that you are talking about. It was more for robot battleing. I am going to use mine as more of an example of...
I think a lot of what has been said here has something to do with why retailers are so adamant about calling their merchandise "Markers" instead of "Guns". I...
Yeah, our club (ORE or Ottawa Robotics Enthusiasts) started this splatbot even in 2000 but due to the complexity/price of paintball markers and other safety...
I am thinking about attempting a project where I will need to get the output from a monitor. I have a laptop with a monitor port that I was thinking about...
... Actually, I thought the paintball robots were very impressive - at least from the video I saw. I was more curious about Johnny's stated goal of: "I am...
VGA capture card? Do they exist? I can imagine that would be pretty easy if you are using a PC on the other end. Making your own VGA decoding circuitry...
Johnhen, I believe that you should have as much fun with the project as you wish. Make it happen. If you don't have enough power to get in trouble then you...
If the goal is to move a series of images from one computer to another, it would likely be cheaper and easier to connect the computers with ethernet and send...
I hit send a little too soon... ... If you don't need high resolution (about 640x480 or better), you might be able to save money by converting the VGA output...
hello, i think for image processing opencv which is a package of c++ could be useful and for capturing image you can use fram grabber cards. i hope that helps ...