I built a 3D printed, aim assisting nerf blaster robot that can lock-on to and track targets automatically, saving you from embarrassment over your awful aim. Probably. It does this using a raspberry pi and pi camera as the brains of the operation to identify and track targets, which communicates with an adafruit feather on a custom breakout board running custom firmware (seeing a theme here?) which controls the stepper motors and servo. Fun fact, tuning PID loops isn't fun, especially when there's some software bugs sprinkled in!

A big thanks to Michael Reeves for his involuntary guest appearance. If you somehow ever see this, yo let's collab. I'm short too so you'll have one less thing to be self conscious about.

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Find the project on Github
https://github.com/DDeGonge/Nerf_Aimbot

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Music
Monogram - Patrick Patrikios
False Morel - Trevor Garrod
Birds - Corbyn Kites
The Awakening - Patrick Patrikios

Chapters
0:00 - Intro
0:52 - Mechanical Design
2:03 - Build Montage
2:28 - Nerf Test
2:47 - Build Montage Part Deux
3:35 - First Moves!
4:08 - Electronics
4:32 - Firmware
5:00 - Pi and Computer Vision
6:00 - Tracking Demo
6:27 - I spent 2 hours editing this bit lol
7:15 - Reeeeeee Face Tracking Demo
7:50 - Loser Mode Demo
8:10 - Outro

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