Drone with Paintball Marker

While the guys in the above video are... off, what's been accomplished here is pretty cool. I had thought that a drone capable of effectively firing paintballs using easily commercially available materials would not be around for a while, but this is capable of just that. In fact, in the video you can see the drone mark a target successfully on a flyby. I'm sure this is titillating to anyone interested in paintball and drones (i.e. everyone cool), and won't be the last time we'll see such a set-up. Anyone up for a build collaboration?

Blue Monkey Paintball S-RAV

While certainly not the first ones to create a paintball RC vehicle, the gents at Blue Monkey Paintball have created a nice polished little package called the S-RAV that they would appear to be selling (or selling in the near future).

Paintball RCXD

Very cool concept, although I had to ask a friend what an RCXD was when I watched this (I'm clearly not up to date on my videogames). Couple failings I might see would it being light up by opposing players (I doubt it could withstand 50 paintballs coming its way), and having to maintain line of sight, so you where you're "detonating" the darn thing. Nonetheless, I'm sure this would be very popular at a field!

Have any of you built something for play that's radio controlled? A tank? UAV? Drop Grey Ops a line and show off your creation.

How To: Cheap Paintball "UAV"

What you'll need:

• $10 video camera off eBay
• Cheap tandem helicopter

First off, I just want to say that this was done completely for fun, and since it was a very small investment I didn't expect nor achieve great results. What it does go to show is that anyone can make a cheap little UAV-like RC drone, and if you decided to scale this up you could probably get some great results.