Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “An Arduino powered Portal Turret”.
And i go to school at sky, mountain charter and i’m currently enrolled in santa monica college, so i don’t have lots of free time, but in what free time i do have i love to make things my project, my latest and biggest project is a turret from The video games portal and portal 2. and what it does is it opens up its arms like like that, and then it shoots little nerf darts and it also talks. It says, cancel it and fired. I actually built the entire shooting assembly out of legos, because they’re really easy to work with.
You know if you make a mistake, you just disassemble it and try again and the motors are also lego motors. I first had the idea to build a portal turret about two years ago, when i came to my first maker faire in 2012 and since then i sort of worked sporadically and then in the last month. A lot because i had a deadline because i’m going to present, oh, i was probably really young when i got started making, because both my parents are kind of bankers. My mom was a designer and loves art. So when i was really little, she got me pencils and my dad said took pokemon out, so my mom saw them in half and made them little stubby pencils. So i couldn’t poke my eye out.
I think i was two and then my dad’s a software engineer. So i also got started using computers earlier. I think i probably used his computer when i was two or three.
The three tools i couldn’t live without would probably be my mother’s hand powered bill. It’S really cute, you crank it and it goes and it’s pretty safe, because if you drop it, it’s not going to keep going and then i also use an x-acto knife all the time and my third favorite tool is duct tape, because you can do anything with That thing my advice to young makers would be that if you have a crazy idea like building a turret, then you should just go ahead and do it. And if you don’t know what you’re doing then don’t worry, because you can find out and don’t be afraid to ask for help, because always there’s always going to be someone who’s willing to help. .