NXT Beam Weapon
Last week I decided to try making an NXT gun using the spinning wheels concept, since the NXT motors are more powerful than the RCX ones and can therefore spin the wheels faster. It came out pretty good... it can shoot 1*5 beams (hence the name, "Beam" Weapon :P ) over 23 feet. The magazine has a capacity of 10 beams, and can shoot single or rapid fire.Below is a video of the gun in action... a touch sensor is used for the trigger, and a motor pushes a beam into the wheels to launch it.
-Jonathan
Comments
Just don't put your eye out, Jonathan... kidding. (Nice use of movie quote, anon!)
Jim
On my shooter I was going to use those beams as projectiles too... Until I used them all up in it's construction!
-NXTMonger
My original goal with this project was to mount the gun on a rover and program it such that I could control it via the key board (move around, move the gun up and down, shoot, etc.)... unfortunately the gun turned out too big for that, so I'm moving on to something else.
-Jonathan
Rick
can you prepare build instructions ?
-Jonathan
How many projectiles does it hold?
=)
-Pie nxt
-Pie nxt
It's just a simple NXT-G program that gradually turns the motors on full power and then fires a shot when the touch sensor is pressed. If the touch sensor is held down, it fires repeatedly. I'll post it along with the building instructions.
-Jonathan
When you´re poasting your buildingstruction?
I want to build an self shooting machine :)
Christian