Build Your Own Autonomous NERF Blaster

BThe Sentinel Project Build

You too can build the original Sentinel prototype yourself. In fact, I’ll tell you how. However, before you trot out to buy supplies, there are a few points you ought to know. Mainly that you’ll need to take the batteries out of this thing or it won’t be living on the base for too long—the weight will eventually bend the base’s clamp off from the disproportionate weight of the batteries. Solving this problem is as easy as making a lithiumion battery modification so I’ll show you how it was originally done and then guide you through that important modification.

The Sentinel Project used Adobe Flash and Adobe AIR as the core platform. Flash and its development language Actionscript require a book much longer than this ...