The self-aiming glove-gun of awesome. (Which might also eventually snipe)

Basically, the idea is to mount a camera on a glove/gauntlet, have a processing center (probably a laptop in a laptop bag), and some sort of motor set so that you could use the combination in order to better aim a gun.  This idea would be the first natural step toward the ultimate goal of a full-body agumenting suit, which i won’t bother going into now because it is, in fact, rediculous.

1. Now first off is getting the camera to recognize, choose, and track the target. 

          a. Recognize – This is an insanely cool area of visual computing in which I’ve seen numerous different graduate projects. Hopefully I’d be able to borrow the code from one of them, cause it’d be a bitch to code. I’ve seen everything from targeting large areas of blue to targeting motion.  the motion-targeting one is available (or will be) online, for a fee (i think).

          b. choose – in the full suit, it’d be where-ever my eyes are looking. in the glove-aimer alone, it’ll be whatever the gun is already pointing at, or it’ll be whatever is moving. I should make it capable of switching on command.

          c. track – once again, the motion sensing version online contains that already. Not too tough, tho i’d like to change it that the object is tracked differently depending on what it is- bunnies bounce, human heads bob, and cars have high inertia)

2nd, the procesing center, is already described- the laptop in carry bag with exposed heat vents; or whatever form of computing  device the full body suit would eventually have. I’m figuring i might as well wire it from camera to laptop to motors tho wireless would be badass; the direction it’s headed in is a full-body suit, so wires can be taken care of effectively.

3rd, the motors to tweak the aim. I’ve considered numerous different designes for this;

        A)like human muscles, but more precise- as on, work by pushing forward or ppulling back on the sides of my glove.

               1) benifits:

                     a)easier to visualize, calculate, etc.

                      a.5) naturally, without feedback, steadying- significantly less energy consumption (assuming proper sealing)

                      b) looks badass

                   c) what my full suit would probably want to do

              2) khans:

                  A)two (or four) hydraulic motors around my wrist?

                        1) clunky

                         2)breakable

                          3)high risk of pinching flesh

                  b) two contact points, limiting flexibility, awkward, and jabbing me in the arm, constantly

                  c)pressurized canister right near my wrist in a gunfight? bad idea.

      B) a weight offset and using conservation of momentum/CoM manipulation to adjust aim- essentially just a bolt with a relatively larger weight on its end. When the gun needs to be adjusted to the right, the motor would turn and shove the bolt left. By conservation of momentum, the gun/motor complex system is shoved the other way. The thing to watch out for, though, is that the hand (the pivot point) follows not the center of mass of the system, but the center of mass of the gun, making the gun likely to sway alot  with every little adjustion.  The only way i’ve come up within less than 5 minutes of thinking which actually works to solve this problem is to do a solid bar attachment backward beyond the wrist connecting to the upper arm, but if we’re gonna do that, let’s just do a full option A.

                      1) I believe this would be better for a large gun such as a rifle or other shoulder-fired weapon, especially when mounted near the front end of it. Larger guns are longer guns are larger acting arms yielding a shorter distance to travel for a given adjustment, and the larger mass of bigger guns is more concentrated near the hand yielding a not substantial increase in moment of inertia which shouldn’t fully counter that larger-acting-arm boost-to- adjustment, though the fact that it’s an increase might help dampen the tendency for overaiming

                    2)the other bonus of this design to keep in mind is that it in no way has to do with the person who is using the gun.  Once (perhaps if) the calculations necessary can be fit onto a chip small enough to embed on or place in the gun, camera mount, or even weight/adjusting system, the whole thing can fit 100% on the gun, turning it from a glove modification to a kickass gun mod. There’s nothing to do other than simply pick up the gun, switch on the system, (select a target, if that ends up being added) and shoot.

Sorry that I can’t get diagrams up here, but I think it’s all relatively straightforward physics.

Also, should I not be posting these ideas online in case they end up working out and I could get a patent on them? Or have some sort of disclamer like:

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*I reserve all right to define schmoofus. This defnition is variable and may change at any time without your consent. By loading, viewing, accesing, sneezing at, reading thru a mirror, yelling at, spilling on, sneezing at, or straight-up reading this webpage (or any webpage), you agree to these terms and conditions.  Any other access, contact, or accidental brushing of this or any website also entails your signature of this disclaimer, and promises me your life and right to life untill Ragnarok, Armageddon, and the Second Coming all happen at once. Anything I deem a violation of this contract constitutes your admission that yes, you did do anything i claim you did, especially if it’s that you stole my ideas and/or took the cookie from the cookie jar.

 

Well, I’m glad that’s been taken care of.

How to visualize the actual energy content of the food you eat, using physics:

This is a fascinating exercise in making large numbers more meaningful, using physics.

Basically, we’ll look at the chemical energy content in our food, and calculate the speed of a nine-pound-baby (chosen for the sakes of universality and oddity)  with an equivalent amount of kinetic energy (energy of motion).

So, looking on the McDonalds website, let’s take my standard food item of choice- A Big Mac.  McDonalds puts its calorie content at 540Calories. Now, remember- the food industry uses capital-C “Calories” as “kilocalories” so that they don’t have to explicitly admit that a Big Mac contains 540,000 calories of chemical energy.  You may recall from chemistry class that a single calorie is the amount of energy it takes to raise the temperature of one gram of water one degree.

This 540,000 calories is actually an archaic unit- let’s switch over to the SI unit Joules by multiplying by 4.184; yielding that the one Big Mac is roughly equivalent to 2,259,360 Joules.

The equation for kinetic energy is KE = (m * v^2)/2

So our roughly 9ish pound baby- approximately 4ish kilograms, then (divide pounds by 2.2 to get the kilogram equivalent), with 2,259,360 joules of kinetic energy, would need to be moving at:

2,259,360 = (4 * v^2)/2

v = 1062.86 meters per second.

For reference, the speed of sound at room temp in air on the earth’s surface is 334 m/s.

Modern fighter jets cap out at Mach 3 (as in, 3 times the speed of sound.)

Thus, our Big Mac meal, if burned with 100% efficiency as fuel to accelerate the 4kilo baby, would result in our baby going a tad faster than the fastest modern fighter jets can go. At this speed, the baby could circumnavigate the Earth at its equator in

40,075,020 m (the circumference of the Earth) / (1062.86m/s) = 37,704 seconds

As in:

37,704 /60 = 628 minutes

628/60 = 10.5ish hours.

A flight Chicago to Tokyo,  nowhere near the distance the baby travels( a mere 10,160,000m, or one-fourth the distance) takes about 13 hours, for comparison.

That, right there, is the energy held within a Big Mac.

Of course, at higher and higher energy amounts one begins to approach the speed of light, and hence must use Einstein’s more accurate equation for kinetic energy.

First!

Hey.

As this is my first post, I’ll try to explain what all may end up on here. I have no expectations whatsoever for readers; this is mainly being created so that i don’t lose track of my various ideas.

Topics on which posts may be made include:

• Various questions I have about science, math, or anything that i’m asking because i don’t understand something and wish to better understand it.
• ideas and explanations for various science-related inventions that randomly pop into my head, or, more accurately, various really-quite-stupid-but-essentially-possible-given-my-current-understanding-of-things ideas.
• Introspective… things. Lists. questions. short essays. whatever.
• Big broad things, questions or otherwise. Think like trying to figure out how to incorporate the beneficial aspects of a free market system into government so that we get rid of frankly bullshit laws like “don’t enter the yellow median” and “the speed limit here, in this school parking lot, is 5mph, despite that anybody running less than a 12minute mile is speeding.”.
• Rants. lots of them.
• Explanations of what I don’t understand. These include any topic and almost always start with “I don’t understand” + [how/why/what/where] + a long long run-on sentence.
• Plenty more which aren’t occurring to me yet.

Clarification- Introspection

Topics about which I think the most:

1. Science. All of it.
2. Love.
3. The World, and other Big questions.
4. Psychology
5. Video Games

Frequently in combinations.