Forum: Freestuff


Subject: Free - Cop Spy Tower

mrsparky opened this issue on Jan 26, 2014 ยท 15 posts


mrsparky posted Wed, 29 January 2014 at 9:07 PM

RFreise - we've got ones here that can "speak" - a operator talks through a speaker. Though I wonder how long before cameras will come with something that can read the NFC/bluetooth on a phone to ID someone. Or maybe even something like mini tasers in city centres. Reckon it wouldn't be that hard to make either. Indeed just playing around with every day techie junk it's possible to make "armed CCTV". Just use a USB rocket launcher, an old webcam/video camera, bit of lego and lot of gaffa tape:) Similar if you mix a media player with IR/motion sensor, a triggertrap and some audio cables to make a switch, you can activate things just by walking past the sensor. Though there is a few seconds lag before firing something like a camera, so the sensor needs to be placed a bit ahead of any device. IR beams can have a wide range as well, so to avoid "misfires", stick the sensor in an fag packet and use a bit of masking tape to narrow the beam. ---------------------- EnglishBob - I think the original might work like the forks on a tractor do. On some images of the real thing there is a small hydraulic strut at the trailer end of the top bar. Which looks like it lifts that bar. But I didn't model that as I recall from helping design one of the models for the P6 disc, getting that to move in time with the top bar would be fiddly. But thats kinda academic really, I'm just really pleased to see you've been kind to rig this, especially as it sounds like it took some time to figure out how to best do it. So I wouldn't call faking it. I couldn't work out how to rig the doughnuts so I had to leave those as static props. Probably because the poser cops ate them all :) No worries about time on this either, what you've done is more than enough. Also no probs with you posting a CR2 either, indeed if you wanna post a full version thats cool with me as well. Not concerned about distribution.

Pinky - you left the lens cap of your mind on again.