PORTAL TURRET 3D PRINT UPGRADE

(Reference image to the right made by: Tyler Garrison, for another turret project by CitizenSnips and modified by me to show the flaws in the turret's original design) All in all the design took between 40 and 60 hours (I don't really track the time). Then this part was cut up into smaller pieces and mechanisms were added to make the guns and eye move.

First the turret was designed in one piece in Solidworks to get the design right. The rest of the design was only a matter of time. There is some space there now to place electronics if you can manage to make them small enough. After I built mine i did a last wave of improvements where I hollowed out the top of the turret. The solution was a compromise where the turret only moves and doesn't open.Īlso the design doesn't include a real space for the electronics (as seen in all the photos and videos). There simply is no room to have a turret with all movement that can also open and close. The issue is (as you can see in the images) that the guns of the turret almost touch each other when the turret is closed. It is because the turret does things that are not physically possible.Īt first I wanted to make this turret so it could open and close as well. Not because there are no reference images or because the turret is that difficult in its design. If you are a fan of Cave Johnson’s work, you may want to give this one a try.The design was the the hardest part of this project. Nothing confirms this better than the fact that Portal fans continue to spend countless hours recreating in-game bots in real life. However, the games it made have made a lasting impression and have been incorporated as pop culture icons. An interactive souvenir of Valve’s glory daysįor a company that dominates the gaming space, Valve made only a precious few games before discovering that the real money lay in video game distribution instead. We recommend sticking to this planning and follow through Official Project Instructions.

PORTAL TURRET 3D PRINT UPGRADE

If you own the latter, you may want to check out our Ender-3 Upgrade Guide. The files come pre-arranged for the usual bed size common on most low-cost 3D printers, such as the Prusa Mini and Creality Ender-3. The result is less oscillating, graceful movement of the tower’s wings, without the need to spend big bucks on powerful servos.ĭe Raaff appears to have an excellent understanding of the 3D printing process, as evidenced by how well the STL files are geared to 3D printing with FDM technology – a very rare luxury on projects like this. The secret to this tower’s high-level mobility comes not only from painstaking programming efforts, but also from the impressive gearbox design that dramatically increases the inexpensive SG90’s servo torque as well as agility. However, the sheer compactness and quality of the kinematics sell the illusion better than more complex attempts in the past, such as Ytec 3D stab into the portal tower. Sentry Turret simulates firing using a clever arrangement of servos, LED lights, a built-in MP3 auxiliary panel to recreate recoil, muzzle flash and clever firing pin. The project uses off-the-shelf components, such as the Arduino WeMos D1 Mini 3 Wi-Fi development board (some other ESP32 game projects) along with an ADXL 345 accelerometer and a PIR motion sensor, allowing the turret to operate simulating a killer rampage when motion is detected. Tower It might not fire live ammunition, but it nonetheless incorporates the trademark IKEA-esque design and underhanded voiceover designed to draw unsuspecting test subjects into the line of fire. Joran de Raaff takes on the Aperture Science Sentry. Secret Sauce: A clever gearbox to impress mobility Moreover, you can do it at home thanks to the comprehensive and painstaking documentation. And Dutch video game developer Joran de Raaff’s version of Portal Turret might be the best yet.

Valve’s 2007 puzzle platformer portal and its 2011 sequel may be more than a decade old, but game makers and embedded systems enthusiasts continue to recreate the devious killer robots from the franchise to this day.

Portal turret 3d print