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:

More to come as project progresses.