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I've controlled mine thru my iPod touch via VNC. Not the best, but it works :)

I'm also working on a laser turret control interface in VB at the moment, I'll post it here when/if it's done :)

Preview!

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It works apart from the "turret control" section + I need to add a few more buttons. May take a while though, I don't know much VB and it turns out it's rather complicated to live control the RCX.

This program will work with the RCX 2.0's only, for now.
 
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Things : I really like the second turret with the red lasers. It looks almost like a real one. I can't turn my laser on with legos unfortunately...

Video of my turret in action, popping balloons.

YouTube - Lego Laser Turret

post 473 WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT
 
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Moore Educational

Ive bought from them before, easy to work with and the stuff was in great shape, if you need anything :)

I'm considering buying a few more cables and making some sensors/attachments, and also a remote so I can control the turret from up to 7m away :D
 
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Cool! It's amazing how much easier it is to do this with the NXT, and it'd also be more accurate since the motors are pretty much servo's.
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yes, but the vertical movement is too fast, so it's not so accurate. I must slow it down... somehow :thinking: ...
 
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yes but in my NXT set are only 2 big worm-gears and they are already used in turret and I don't have other :(
 
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Moore Educational

Ive bought from them before, easy to work with and the stuff was in great shape, if you need anything :)

I'm considering buying a few more cables and making some sensors/attachments, and also a remote so I can control the turret from up to 7m away :D
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Nice site. I'm thinking of getting the remote control and modify it with extremely powerful LEDs in order to have a longer range command... Also I was thinking of putting the mini motor to focus adjust the laser :evil:

And yeah you should use worm gears, although I used normal demultiplying gears, it is a lot more accurate. But worm gears are harder to use on legos, so it's your choice
 
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The site I linked above sells like 5 worm gears for like $5 or so. Nice turret tho.

I have been thinking about converting the IR link to RF using some of those 433mhz transmitting modules. The carrier freq is 76Khz though, so I would have to strip it down.
 
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Very nice turrets out of the legos I must say I love the idea. I had been thinking about doing something similar but using the USB missile launchers sold on think geek. They even have one now thats laser guided. I was thinking about changing out the laser, or messing with it somehow. Heres the link to the one I seen.


ThinkGeek :: USB Laser Guided Missile Launcher

Obviously you made yours out of legos lol, much more creative then my idea of buying this. I would have never thought to use legos.. I was thinkin about popping balloons and lighting matches at the control of my laptop lol.

-Greg
 
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