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ECE 362 Mini Project

It is that time of year again when ECE 362 students buckle down and use all their microcontroller knowledge to build a thing. This year four brave souls will endeavor to design an automatic nerf turret.

Meet the Team

• Josh Hunsberger
• Will McGrath
• Reed Erekson
• Matt Scuderi

Meet the Project

• 180 degree field of view
• Automatic panning
• Automatic anomaly detection
• Automatic firing
• Nerf gun: Vulcan
• Microcontroller: Motorola HCS12

Currently Implemented Features

• A servo motor turns the base of the gun with the stabilizing help of a Lazy Susan
• Code that tells the turret to pan back and forth
• Soldered power wires to shoot the Nerf gun from outside the gun
• Basic sensor code that reads sensor input data

Pictures

The Gun:

Turntable base from the side. Notice the Lazy Susan and the servo on the bottom.

Turntable base from top

Trigger is held down by rubber band. Wires coming from battery terminal inside gun

More to come as project progresses.

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