Yes, yesterday was officially Pi day (3/14), but it’s 2 AM on the 15th, so technically its not Pi day anymore.

Yesterday a few notable things happened, Apple put their first full length movie on iTunes, Disney’s High School Musical (for $2.99), then took it down, then put it back up (for $9.99). I suppose they haven’t quite worked out all of the kinks in the movie system yet. I don’t know about you, but 10 dollars for a 400 x 250 pixel movie? Yikes… don’t think so.

I came across a little project that was kind of interesting, a motorized, optically tracked turret appropriately named, TheSentryGun.

The idea of this project was to create a fully-automated sentry gun, capable of picking out a human target and accurately tracking and shooting him or her in the heart. Really, the idea was to find a cool robotics project for the summer while I was working at an advertising agency, and I’d only ever seen sentry guns in movies (like Congo) and video games (Half-Life 1, Half-Life 2, Team Fortress Classic).

I guess the creator of the project searched for another similar project but didn’t find one…

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