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Motion-triggered paintball gun

Rather roughshod tutorial (e.g. I think he gets his wires crossed) on adding a motion detector trigger to a paintball gun using a BASIC Stamp HomeWork board, a laser pointer and a servo.

How to build motion detect to fire a paintball gun - [via] Link

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Posted by: Fety on November 26, 2007 at 9:38 AM

LOL @ -6:27 CapaciTATOR!

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Posted by: teamcynergy on November 26, 2007 at 1:15 PM

Re: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzYdthtTuAE from TeamCynergy.com

FYI: The setup in the tutorial is correct, for those who want to set this up. The Power was mistakenly called the ground.

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Posted by: me on February 26, 2008 at 2:24 AM

lol and the capacitor was mistakingly called a capacitator

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