The other day I was working on a final project with some friends at school when we had a brilliant idea. We used a laser pointer from one of the projector remotes to mess with people in the commons at school from a small window in an upstairs classroom. When the student we were messing with started looking around to see where the source of the light was coming from, we would quickly duck out of site. A few people would watch the students react on the UAT webcam. When we could see that the students stopped looking around to see who was shining the laser, we would pop out again and shine it. They could NOT figure out where the laser was coming from. Hilarity ensued.
This lead to a project idea. Recently I procured an RC car with a video camera and headset. This thing is really quiet and really cool. I’m thinking I should be able to re-mount the camera on dual-axis servo rig. This would let me aim the camera in any direction I want. Also, I want to mount a laser on top of the camera so I can remotely shine it at people from this little car. It would be so much harder for people to spot this quiet little black car than a giggling college student. Yes, I know this project is ridiculous but I think it would be fun. It also gives me another reason to learn a microcontroller other than a BS2. I’ll just call it a social experiment. I’ve added this project to the Ideas section.