A Heat-Seeking, Automated Nerf Sentry Gun [Nerf]

Nerf guns at the moment are very scary. They’ve reloadable magazines and fire automatically and seem like they may provide an acceptable defense during an alien invasion. But tips on how to render one even scarier? Make it heat-seeking. Video, please:

That terrifying toy took Grand Prize at the MAKE/Design News Gadget Freak Design Contest , netting its creator, Rick Prescott, a fab grand and a six-month storefront at Maker’s Market.

Prescott paired a Nerf Vulcan machinge gun with some Devantech TPA81 thermo sensors and a ATmega168 microcontroller, and he says he has ” grand plans to deploy the infrared seeking sentinel facing the entrance of my work cubical that will speed interaction with less desirable visitors.”

That’s fine, but Nerf are kids toys, and might you imagine anything more traumatizing for a teenager than a robotic Nerf gun that won’t stop shooting you. But whatever, a well deserved first prize for you, Mr. Prescott! [ Make via Dvice ]

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