To make it easy for those who want to make their own Portal Turret, Yvo has posted a complete assembly instructions on instructables. All of these parts were printed on the UP! at 0.3mm layer thickness in about 20 hours, consuming about 500g of PLA filament. To print out parts for the turret you will need a 3D printer of at least 120mm x 120mm x 120mm (roughly 5"x5"x5").
#PORTAL TURRET 3D PRINT PLUS#
All in all the design took between 40 and 60 hours, according to Yvo.įor the turret Yvo used an UP Plus 3D printer that he won last year at the UP2013 contest. Then mechanisms were added to make the guns and eye move. Yvo designed the turret in one piece in Solidworks. It only requires a 3D printer and some electronics and programming skills. The whole turret is 3D printed and can be created with basic tools. In this mode the turret can be controlled by a joystick, though there will be no sound." notes Yvo.
#PORTAL TURRET 3D PRINT MANUAL#
"When no computer is present, the turret automatically switches to manual control.
#PORTAL TURRET 3D PRINT SOFTWARE#
The software spots the subject on the camera, and the PC processes the video to decide where the turret needs to aim and provides the sounds for the turret. The arduino handles the movement and the light. The turret is controlled with an Arduino and a PC. And the best features is camera tracking. Both the eye and the arms move and there is light for the eye and guns. This intricate prop replica is designed to be as actuated as is possible, says its creator Yvo. Armed with almost unlimited ammunition and deadly accuracy, they will attempt to kill any test subjects on sight. Turrets are one of the main testing obstacles in the Portal games.
Not only does this Portal turret move, has light and sound, it can also track its victims with a camera. Check out the video below of the gun in action.This is the coolest thing we will see today. What do you think about this automated gun? Discuss in the 3D Printed Rubber Band Sentry Gun forum thread on. All in all, this is quite the creation for a young man who has only owned a 3D printer for about 2 years. Other than the 12 3D printed parts, which Thomas has made available on Thingiverse for anyone to download, the gun requires several nuts and screws, a threaded bar, a skateboard ball bearing, 30 cm of string, several pieces of metal pipe, and the various electronics mentioned above. The gun, if made correctly, has a shooting range of about 5 meters, and its design was inspired by a sentry turret seen in the Portal 2 video game. The 3D printed gun was designed by Thomas using Cubify Invent, over a period of three days, and then the parts were 3D printed on his bq Witbox printer using PLA filament. Thomas used a software package created by Project Sentry Gun in order to control his creation. It allows the gun to easily find and shoot any moving target, all by itself. “I used an Arduino Mega and for the motion the sentry uses two servo motors, one micro servo 180° for the tilt (y-axis) and a normal one for the pan (x-axis). “The ‘Automatic Rubber Band Blaster’ gave me the inspiration to design something similar but automated,” Thomas tells. Thomas has, for a long time, desired to create something of this magnitude, but it wasn’t until he saw a design on Thingiverse for an Automatic Rubber Band Blaster that the light bulb went off in his head. The model he created is capable of shooting 24 rubber bands in succession, although he tells us that it can easily be adapted with a larger barrel to fire up to 30. Thomas, however, elected to use this model to create a fully functional rubber band version of the gun. This certainly is the case with the 3D printed Rubber Band Sentry Gun, created by a 20-year-old student from Bienne, Switzerland, named Kevin Thomas.įor those of you who are unaware, a sentry gun is a firearm that can sense targets and then fire upon them. It seems as though each and every rendition of these toy guns is a little bit more intricate and functional than the last. Here at, we’ve covered our fair share of 3D printed rubber band guns over the course of the past couple of years.
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