Homemade airsoft turret suspension diary 

The transitions between the 3D model and the real turret are insane ! Good job !

The editing and the music while rotating the pieces in 3D is literally TOP NOTCH. This video IS a work of art.

WOW,where can i find the project CAD files?Im dont care if its not complete,its just awesome,congratulations

This is a real youtube gem. The concept, the execution and the really nice editing makes it really stand out.

Excellent work! It would be very appreciated in the development community if you contributed this project as an opensource. It is a perfect base to expand with new functionalities. I hope you venture into making a tutorial of this fantastic project.

In absolute awe of the talent, determination, and aesthetic sense here. Any and every part of this project represents a breathtaking amount of dedication - the modelling, the engineering, and even the video presentation. I know you've already received a lot of praise but I want to very honestly relate how astounded I was at your talent and dedication here.

The work on this is seriously mind boggling-from the creative to the actual assembly. Genius

One of the most aesthetically pleasing turrets I've seen on youtube. Good stuff my dude.

Huge huge huge props to that, that Turret looks absolutely amazing, and the editing is sick, love to see more

Well what can I say, I thought it was yet another video of yet another homemade robot turret but this is truly a masterpiece! Even developed from scratch all the reloading and shooting design that is anything but trivial since many use already existing mechanics installed on airsoft replicas. Very nice also from an electronic point of view, I particularly appreciated the use of STM32 as a micro, really congratulations again an exceptional project!

Usually im not a fan of videos where there is no talking.. or 3d printing time laps.. but you sir did an amazing job with this video! loved the music and the way you merged the video clips in sync with the music! and WOW! such a cool project!! I had to sub.. can't wait to see it up and running!

Have you considered adding more sensors and using a multilateration algorithm? The math is very similar to trilateration, but it is more robust because it provides localization on more than three signals(the theoretical minimum for 3D space). Additionally, because you are using sound based sensors, you might be getting some issues with interference. Spacing your sensors further apart and trying to isolate them acoustically with foam could help. Great video and extremely cool project! You have a very elegant form factor, and I wish you the best of luck.

Your projects are ludicrous. I strive to design things as well as you do. The genius in making efficient multipart printable structures is inspiring. I have tried so hard to make rubberband guns and a planetary gear turret mechanism. Great job. Also, your idea about using triggered rangefinders is genius. Although it may not work at first, innovation is a painful and rewarding process. It looks really cool, like the CROW turret on American vehicles but cooler with the BB’s sliding from the magazine.

Hi. Nice project. Build looks great. The range finder needs the sensors apart as much one from the other. See the pair of range finders on the turrets of ww2 battleships, one on the back left, one on the back right. But in your case, because they are based on sound, it is reflected by the gun itself and may cause false readings. The best way is to test with two sensors (but you loose height measurement), or you can use all three mounted in a triangle, but separated by sound absorbing material. Then compare the loudest signal and go towards it, the next microsecond measure, compare and move again. If you have a 4th sensor you can arrange them in a cross, separated by a wall of sound proofing material and differentiate the top and bottom sensor signals for vertical movement, and left and right for horizontal movement. Calibrate with the sensors mounted on the gun. Calibrate each time you change the exterior of the gun. Good luck.

can i get your 3d modeling file? :)

BBs for the turret ring bearings.....amazing. so simple but i would never have thought of it. love it! And props for the Nigel Standford music. Love Automatica

You are not stuck. You have achieved what you aimed for. The only way to advance is with greater ammo. You haven't failed. Ever think to install that on an M2 Bradley RC frame? Excellent job!

Already a huge fan of the song, but the way you put your visual with the song can make anyone fall in love with robotics

Genius idea using the 6mm BBs as ball bearings for your lateral turret movement!

Nice model! I used a usb missile launcher toy with a usb webcam similar to this about 15 years ago with roborealm to control it. I think your turret would work well using a camera with 2 laser pointers in parallel. The camera can point to the correct position and the distance between the laser pointers will determine distance to the object, the closer together the points, the further away the object. I'd love to print this out and give it a try!

Super cool man! I made one of these a few years ago. It worked pretty well. I could never get the camera to display images fast enough to be useful though. I was working on a loader with a similar method when I lost momentum on the project it's sitting in a box behind me. Your video has renewed my interest in it. I just might pull it out and finish it. Thanks man!

Awesome design and function. Looked like quite the project I loved the neat mathatical layout with functionality.

Um belo trabalho com toda a certeza, uma das coisas mais legais que vi nos últimos tempos. Parabéns mesmo.

I was actually looking for aomething similar like that turret for a project. Thanks for showing. It'll be some inspiration to me :).

Insanely good! Underrated video. Please make more

This is the kind of adhd editing my tism needs. Awesome looking project!

Great Turret design! Would love the 3d files to try and make my own! I would swap out the ultra sonic sensors for an RPI 4 and tensor flow!

dont worry about it, jus the turret itself and the editing on the video are impressive enough, you can always spend time on a vision system later when you feel like it

This is a masterpiece. What an excellent job you've done.

Some of the best editing I’ve ever seen

The way this thing fires is very reminiscent of the MK38 25MM cannon that my coworkers operate and work on. Very impressive

Awesome. Allmost the same idea I did. But with compressed air to rapid fire the bb balls like a machine gun. I had the sentry mode up and running incl the stepper movement of the cannon. Could hide in a planter box until it sees motion. Then a lift mechanism raises the turret of out the box and start firing. The system was using a wide angle camera to detect movement. The system was running almost perfect but the image processing was too slow on the laptop I used. The project came to a hold and switched to other projects. Footage of the project can still be fount on my shorts. Nevertheless, awesome project💪

This is amazing! It's so nice to see when smaller you-tubers make some real bangers!

The way of your presentation from 3D model to the real is amazing.

Love the editing. And the turret ofc

The problem with the sensors might be solvable by making an independent module for the sensors, detached from the turret, I believe that's how most defense arrays operate by having a detection unit separate from the guns, and all that's left is just adjusting the readings so that the turret fires on targets relative to it from the sensor

Oh, man; don’t stop! That’s a seriously nice bit of engineering!

Wow, the editing effort that went in to this! Holy shit, and it felt so cool because it made making stuff look cool. But then it ended in a complicated mathematical problem and you lost me completely. Amazing build tho, lots of clever design choices and cool to watch the process.

an amazing idea. You could try an other sensor, much harder to get but it could work. I'm talking about termal vision

Very nice and really sophisticated home made turret. It seems that all function is working well. It is really harm that project cannot be following.

Incredible work, I love the implementation of motion design.

I want to have one of those with a seat for my six inch figures, that would be awesome. Also imagine using glow in the dark bb and putting in a light to charge them up before firing.

If the turret can track to a laser designation and use c02 cartridges to fire. 177 BB's, this would be great for an remote control tank / plane / battleship wargame. Use fpv or just targeting by driver, your RC weapons will auto track the targets. Would be wicked

first thing first your work is speechless and good editing video well done could you explain the electronic part thx

the turret is very nice good job !

Badass!! Just an idea: use an "xbox kinect sensor" to add facial recognition. Great video!

Great work, man!

That's fucking brilliant regardless of you couldn't get it to work. Loved the 3D model design and the video editing.

You could sell plans and instructions for that "as is" all day long. It's very cool and "sci fi". You video editing skill is top notch as well.

my guy right here gonna be designing and making weapons for some country someday soon. this is legit military grade

tbh even the joystick controlled one looks amazing, maybe with the ai advances in 3 years there is probably a prebuilt ai library that detirmines a human and its position relative to the camera

Great video! Well done!

Amazing work my friend!

Using the BBs as bearings was very clever

the editing is insane

Amazing job!

This is by far the coolest DIY project I have seen, time to start creating AI assisted home defences :D

Props to you what programming language are best to develop autonomous target tracking like this?

Omg you're insane good job

you seem crazy, dangerous, and above all, talented ... welcome to my Z-Day team ;)

This is The coolest video I have ever seen on youtube, keep this style up and you'll 100% become really big on youtube.

you could maybe use the same technique as the "real" ones. Seperate the turret and the radar, object detecting unit from each other. The radar detects and calculates and just sends its position data to the turret. With that, you have an fast moving turrent and an radar that can detect objects much better.

this would be awesome if you could see what the camera does on screen, and control it's movement with a mouse, in the x/y/z coordinates, left button fire, and mouse controls X reticle.

So, when you separated the three sensors each say, 30cm from the other two, into a big triangle of sensors, the ratio was corrected and the problem solved. Then what happened? Please finish the story. Great design and fabrication, btw. Thank you.

You have a subscriber for life as I have ones that laserdot my cats but not nearly as well engineered

The gun design kind of reminds me of an Oerlikon 20 mm cannon.

the best presentation I've ever seen

You need sonar or radar or lidar or steroscopic vision or at leest 2 images of the scene each from different perspective to be able to calculate / obtain distance information.

It looks like the guns idf uses it has automatic fire on targets and a “joy stick “ to use also with monitor. Just a way smaller version

Awesome video... did you consider for example two groups of sensors?

Every home needs these

This is totally insane !!

Stick a fixed point in front side of your gun barrel, which you should know the distance and angle from your gun sight/camera. Use them to compute the depth of your target might be an idea. btw, I love your mechanical ability coming up with the 3d printed parts, that is not an easy task.

Great job! Love your work.

This is exactly what I was looking for. So instead of triangulating with sonic sensor, have you tried computer vision?

Great stuff! Would be interested in the files as well to help with hobby stuff.

holy crap im more impressed by the edit lol good job overall

That is a good idea to use a 3D printer to create a model, and I think a 3 cm. distance is enough they are precision numbers you can scale them for calculation if the target not moving you need to add some small values or one mode sensors. ( I am talking about Infrared sensors only not to build Turret )

If you had to sell something like this I would be amongst the first to give you my money. Good job

Hey - are there any detailed instructions for this?

Great Work with all the parts and hard Work you have Put in it I would Love to build it my self in a little bigger with camera and Manual Control Ist there any way to geht the CAD Files from you Much Love and greetings from Germany 🙂

Great video and excellent work! are the files available for purchase? If not I understand. Thank you!

Amazing skills showcase, you are a genius.

How is the project going? I'm a third year EE student and I wanted to build an automatic turret with tracking and facial recognition, and man your idea is beautiful, I'd love to have a chat with you about this!

I would love one of those for my garden. Finding a efficient non lethal pigeon repellent is surprisingly hard.

Are the subtitles in English? Cause I didn’t understand a single thing. Very impressive project.

Awesome job ! Thanks for sharing

may be you can change the sonar range finder sensors with the TOF laser sensors like VL53L0X or better one. may be it help to find the target more precisely

Please tell me you have intentions down the road to add a camera and create some kind of target tracking, that would be soo badass!

Very cool design would enjoy an airport kit of your unit.

How did you make those transitions? Just awesome.

I like the estetic! :o

JN servos are awesome. I use them in 1:8 off-road buggy. better price and quality than the big names.

i love it, is that STLs and plans somewhere for sale?

Amazing work! Would you consider selling the stl files for 3D printing and linking all the parts?

Would it be possible to replace the sensors with a camera, and then run some calculations on the image feed? I'm thinking kinda like the stuff that goes on in an optical mouse.

I don't usually make comments. But I must say that your video editing and music selection is awesome! If saden to see that this video has low views!

I need to mount a few of these on my roof to keep the squirrels away.

Thumbs up, - You are nok stock - you learned something you can use in the future.

Amazing but how does the gun reloads?