Machine Gun Mod of the Day: Rick Prescott took home the grand prize in the MAKE/Design News Gadget Freak Design Contest for his impressive modding of an Nerf® Vulcan EBF-25TM foam dart shooting machine gun into an “Aliens-style heat-tracking autocannon.”
Prescott says:
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.
Prescott plans to situate the Infrared Seeking Sentinel “facing the entrance of my work cubical in order to speed interaction with less desirable visitors.”
I’ll take ten.
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