The humble security cam is now ready and willing to choose violence.

A big-thinking Slovenian startup has created a curious smart security camera that doesn’t just spy on your visitors, but will actively open fire on potential intruders with paintball pellets – or even tear gas rounds – with “ultra high precision.” What could possibly go wrong?

  • IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social
    53·
    7 months ago

    Yeah paintballs are totally harmless, when people play paintball they wear full face masks just for shit and giggles. I doubt this thing can correctly aim to avoid hitting someone eyes with every shot, a little dirt in the barrel and just the wind can drastically change a paintballs trajectory. Be ready to pay for some innocent bystander’s eye surgery when you install this thing. Also when it freezes outside those paintballs will be as hard as marbles if they aren’t stored in a heated container.

    • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      7 months ago

      I used to play paintball 30+ years ago in college, back before high capacity semi-automatic guns were even a thing. Accuracy was way more important back then since you couldn’t just spray an area with hundreds of shots a minute. We quickly learned that not only did dirt etc. in the barrel impact accuracy but the paintballs themselves could as well.

      If they sat for a long period of time the liquid paint inside the ball could congeal slightly and stick to one side, throwing off the balance of the ball. So when you shot it, it would spin in a random way and hook noticeably. We learned to spin the balls briefly in a round Tupperware container before using them. That would spread out the paint inside the ball, making them more evenly balanced. The result was noticeably more accurate shots.

      I’d expect to see the paintballs shot from this thing to hook quite a bit…