The guys from the House4Hack hackerspace in Johannesburg won the 2011 Google+ Hackathon with their Friggin’ Laser Turret. The build started off as a remote-controlled webcam that can be controlled by ...

After a longish hiatus, we were pleased to see a new video from [Afroman], one of the most accessible and well-spoken teachers the internet has to offer. If you’re new to electronics, see the previous ...

While it’s well know that a cheap pen laser is great entertainment for the cats in your life, why shouldn’t you automate the process? To that end La Fabrique DIY has built an automated system powered ...

Fans of the awesome and iconic Portal and Portal 2 games created by Valve, who enjoy building Arduino powered devices, might fancy building their very own tracking and talking model Portal turret.

In this project, we create a joystick-controlled laser by connecting two servos to a joystick and using this setup as a pan-and-tilt controller for a laser pointer. The following is excerpted from the ...

Cockroaches are a source of trouble for many people, so there should be many people who say, ``If AI that automatically exterminates cockroaches appears, I definitely want to use it.'' An AI-equipped ...

[Photo: Ryan Palser] If you’re a fan of the game Portal, at some point you might have wanted your very own Portal turret to protect your precious goods. Ryan Palser did, so he set to work on creating ...

Playing a game of laser tag at home has become a reality thanks to some clever Raspberry Pi and Arduino setups in the past, and it’s been taken a step further by replacing the players with RC tanks.

Last year, Lockheed Martin began testing a new tactical laser turret for future warplanes. After 60 test flights Lockheed says the 360° capability of the turret system has been verified, moving the ...