The Bigger Design presents you with the intial release of the Sentinel project. We strapped a NERF BFG on a homebrew swivel stand, hooked up some wires with an Arduino board, slapped a webcam on top, and brought it all together with an Adobe AIR application to make it sing. Now you can too.
LICENSE
The Sentinel project is a mashup of ideas and is based on several freely available AS3 libraries. You can do whatever you like with it as long as you don’t sell it. If you do create a unit, please let us know.
INSTALLATION
The Orbitron font and AS3 libraries are included. You’ll need an Arduino board and a webcam to get it started. From there you’ll also need a NERF Vulcan, a few servos, etc. A tutorial is in the works to get it all going, but you can start looking around now and seeing how things work.
FUTURE
- Tutorials on how to create your own base/stand, configure Arduino, making it all sing, etc.
- OpenCV integration for face tracking
- Moving in the X and Y axis without buying a $800 base. The jury is still out on how this is going to be done affordably.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I’d like to thank Jack Doyle, Justin Windle, Grant Skinner, Björn Hartmann, and Matt Przybylski for making their awesome AS3 libraries publicly available for the Flash community.
CONTACT
If you have any questions, please contact us at: info@thebiggerdesign.com
Any chance of a tutorial for this?