Gunbot

The Antichrome · Nov 23, 2012

I added the Gunbot powerpoint dry fire program to the pinned drill resources.
Check it out.

http://gunbot.wordpress.com/2012/11/06/gunaim-powerpoint-dryfire-deck/

jtischauser · Nov 23, 2012

This is a great idea for a projector TV!!! A guy could simulate a match with a wall and a couple ports and an 80" screen.

The Antichrome · Nov 23, 2012

Jesse Tischauser said:
This is a great idea for a projector TV!!! A guy could simulate a match with a wall and a couple ports and an 80" screen.

Geez, and I've been using a 7" Kindle!

n8thegr8 · Dec 11, 2012

Jesse Tischauser said:
This is a great idea for a projector TV!!! A guy could simulate a match with a wall and a couple ports and an 80" screen.

I had an idea similar to this recently:

-Project an image up on the wall with a PC
-Shoot at the image with one of those laser cartidges that turn on the laser with a firing pin strike
-Point a webcam at the projection, hooked up to the same PC, running OpenCV or LabVIEW to track the laser

With this method, you could have reactive moving targets/zombies/whatever, compile statistics, etc.

Obvious downside is it'd only work with DAO guns

kdf9511 · Dec 22, 2012

I like this one. I've got my PC hooked up to my 47" big screen in the living room and it works out really nice for running this drill. I try to run through it a couple of times a week after work.

The Antichrome · Dec 22, 2012

TacticalK9 said:
Note...It Does NOT work with airsoft!

Why not? Did you shoot your monitor?

Motojunkie · Dec 22, 2012

n8thegr8 said:
I had an idea similar to this recently:

-Project an image up on the wall with a PC
-Shoot at the image with one of those laser cartidges that turn on the laser with a firing pin strike
-Point a webcam at the projection, hooked up to the same PC, running OpenCV or LabVIEW to track the laser

With this method, you could have reactive moving targets/zombies/whatever, compile statistics, etc.

Obvious downside is it'd only work with DAO guns

Did you get this to work? If so, can you post a tutorial for computer tards like myself?

n8thegr8 · Dec 24, 2012

Motojunkie said:
Did you get this to work? If so, can you post a tutorial for computer tards like myself?

Haven't gotten around to it yet. The software side of things I'd be able to develop pretty quickly I think (I'm a software engineer), the hard part is convincing the wife that I need a projector and an $80 laser, lol.

I've done some work in the past with the small 5mm laser modules when I tried to make my own guide rail laser, so I've considered trying to shoehorn one of those into a snap-cap to avoid buying the obscenely priced laser.

drmitchgibson · Dec 24, 2012

n8thegr8 said:
-Project an image up on the wall with a PC
-Shoot at the image with one of those laser cartidges that turn on the laser with a firing pin strike
-Point a webcam at the projection, hooked up to the same PC, running OpenCV or LabVIEW to track the laser

Do you have access to LabVIEW at home? Because this would be one of the better developments in shooting in terms of feedback. The paper doesn't lie, but you have to actually shoot the paper.

n8thegr8 · Dec 25, 2012

Mitch Gibson said:
Do you have access to LabVIEW at home? Because this would be one of the better developments in shooting in terms of feedback. The paper doesn't lie, but you have to actually shoot the paper.

I do have a student edition from when I took my Measurement and Automation class, but I've gone back and forth on using LabVIEW or OpenCV. LabVIEW is powerful and would be relatively quick to build up, but it's not as portable, and licensing is expensive (compiling an executable stores the license used to generate it, which could get you in trouble if you distribute it). OpenCV would be more portable and flexible, and it's free, but development would be a little more involved. I'm kind of leaning toward OpenCV because I'd like to open source it.

jtischauser · Jan 2, 2013

Mitch Gibson said:
Do you have access to LabVIEW at home? Because this would be one of the better developments in shooting in terms of feedback. The paper doesn't lie, but you have to actually shoot the paper.

n8thegr8 said:
I do have a student edition from when I took my Measurement and Automation class, but I've gone back and forth on using LabVIEW or OpenCV. LabVIEW is powerful and would be relatively quick to build up, but it's not as portable, and licensing is expensive (compiling an executable stores the license used to generate it, which could get you in trouble if you distribute it). OpenCV would be more portable and flexible, and it's free, but development would be a little more involved. I'm kind of leaning toward OpenCV because I'd like to open source it.

Wow it just took a turn for the nerdiest in here. I just had flash backs from the OSU engineering computer lab.

n8thegr8 · Apr 21, 2013

So I've been working on a proof-of-concept in my spare time (basically just a target you click on with a mouse and it makes a bullet hole and a bang, and read the image stream from the webcam). Performance is satisfactory in Linux, however on my much more powerful Windows box, it's annoyingly sluggish, and I haven't even started doing video processing yet. OpenCV is kind of kludgey at generating visuals, so I think I'll end up just using it for the video processing, and use OpenGL for the graphics, which should allow some cool 3D stuff. Now I just need to learn OpenGL, lol.

I just realized I'm kind of hijacking this thread, so any more updates I post will go in a new thread...sorry OP!