Oh Dang!
> Several years ago, I brought a high quality thermography camera to a
> battle.
>
Thermal signatures of our tanks are indistinguishable from background.
>
>
Throw us some hints! I want to make one too!
My solution, which I have been
researching since the X-Prize was first offe
On Monday, December 9, 2013 9:07:50 PM UTC-5, fan fan wrote:
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> I thought of a way to do Auto-Target acquisition.
> Tanks generally run hotter than either the terrain or operators, due to
> motor heat and the sun. So all you need to do to get a tank to shoot
> another one automatically is to pu
sell it to the goverment
In a message dated 12/10/2013 3:16:38 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
smit...@myfairpoint.net writes:
third;we go look for another victim ...err target.
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first; we stop laughing.
second; we apologize for our automatic targeting system error.
third;we go look for another victim ...err target.
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From: isaac goldman
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Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: [TANKS] Pi
you shouldn't put yourself down like that Frank, we know you have better
than a 2nd grade education as you almost made the try-outs for "are you
smarter than a 5th grader"
In a message dated 12/10/2013 11:59:06 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
frank.pitte...@gmail.com writes:
(Einstein vs. 2n
they're a bit big but do stand out.
in the past I thought something like that would be a good idea, but would
take it one step father. have the flag mast mount into a ear-phone plug and
wire the plug for powering the gun, this way the gun can't fire without the
flag (or plug) being plugged
Sorry, Loic. Flags will never work in our hobby. Veteran battlers (who
can already keep track of team members) will keep changing their flags
during the battle to sneak up on rookies :-)
Don't worry, you'll be amazed at the next battle how well you are able
to keep track of friends and foes.
A little history of the Pittelli X-Prize. Will Montgomery and I battled
R/C warships for over a decade before starting the tank combat hobby.
During our warship days, which had many ingenious participants, there
were plenty of interesting ideas for automatic weapons and mechanisms of
various k
After being and acting as a "newbie" at the Gettysburg event, I found that
"theory thinking" and "practical combat" might be two very different
environments...
For IFF, I would suggest something SIMPLE:
What about a long antenna on each tank, and colored triangular flags? As
this hobby grows,
Ill take that a step further; ill try and spoof your IFF signal. I had to
sit through two miserable courses in university on signals and systems; i
might as well make use of them :P
In all seriousness, while I and many other people are no doubt trying for
the prize, there is a reason its been uncl
ah.
In a message dated 12/10/2013 8:06:46 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
panthergol...@gmail.com writes:
Some of us (such as myself) are electronics people by trade or degree.
Automated fire-control is our grail.
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> Add in an IR camera, an IR flashing beacon on friendlies, and don’t shoot
> within X feet of a friendly.
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> IFF, that's the crux of the whole issue isn't it? It's been proven time
and again that anybody with some brains and Google can build an
autotracking paintball gun that shots anythin
^^ Some of us (such as myself) are electronics people by trade or degree.
Automated fire-control is our grail.
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 1:59 AM, wrote:
> honestly i don't see why there should be any talk of auto track as it
> takes that much more "thought" out of the game, that doesn't even all
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