My New Air Rifle Shooting Range
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:53 am
Hi People..
At last my Air Rifle range is ready.. Many of you don’t shoot 10 mtrs Air rifle .. but thought of sharing this experience with you all.
You people can not imagine how happy I am today..
Actually I tried to contact few people to supply me a stand and a target changer.. but I think the dealers were busy with some other things and had no time for me..
By nature I always wanted every thing immediately and always love homebrew things..
So this turned into an embedded system which gave me a chance to use my technical ability and produced a system to help me in shooting.
Project Details
This range has a sophisticated wireless target changer, pellet trap, creates very less noise and shows the picture of the target in a TV near the shooter
Time taken 70 Hours in 3 three week ends
Expenditure nearly $33
1. First I made the wooden box out of ply wood.
2. Made a pellet trap as shown in the figure. It collects all the pellets and puts in to a cup. At first the back plate was thin and was producing noise. But after experimenting a lot by putting wax, putty and many other thing realized that if the back plate is made thick the pellet will not be able to vibrate it .. then how the sound will get generated? This did the job.
3. Used my old radio controlled toy car, increased its range so that it can work from 10 meters.
4. Replaced its DC motor with my own circuit and a stepper motor. The stepper motor which I used turns 1.8 degree per pulse.
5. Used a Atmega Microcontroller to program the motor so that the rotation of the motor can be controller by the joy stick of the car remote.
6. Calculated how much distance the target card travels when the motor rotates 1.8 degree. Based on that programmed the microcontroller in such a way that on forward and backward movement of the joy stick will bring the next or previous card in front of the open area.
7. Attached a wireless cctv camera in front of the target and adjusted in such a way that best view is captured.
8. The receiver of the camera is connected to a small 5.5 inch b/w TV and which shows the target. Though the image is not the true image ( little oval) but more than enough to show the score.
9. Both the stepper motor and roller pair which is attached to the stepper motor was removed from a broken fax printer which I had brought by paying only Rs 30 from the Junk market of Bangalore ( a Sunday market near KR Market)
10. Almost every thing except the plywood and CCTV (Rx TX set )set was from home scraps. and starting from wood work to electronics .. i tried to manage myself.
Why I made this..
This place was used for washing cloths and my washing machine is placed there. A gate is there to secure my washing machine. So it did not allow me to put a normal target changer. Now I can use this as shooting range and can still keep my washing m/c there.
At last my Air Rifle range is ready.. Many of you don’t shoot 10 mtrs Air rifle .. but thought of sharing this experience with you all.
You people can not imagine how happy I am today..
Actually I tried to contact few people to supply me a stand and a target changer.. but I think the dealers were busy with some other things and had no time for me..
By nature I always wanted every thing immediately and always love homebrew things..
So this turned into an embedded system which gave me a chance to use my technical ability and produced a system to help me in shooting.
Project Details
This range has a sophisticated wireless target changer, pellet trap, creates very less noise and shows the picture of the target in a TV near the shooter
Time taken 70 Hours in 3 three week ends
Expenditure nearly $33
1. First I made the wooden box out of ply wood.
2. Made a pellet trap as shown in the figure. It collects all the pellets and puts in to a cup. At first the back plate was thin and was producing noise. But after experimenting a lot by putting wax, putty and many other thing realized that if the back plate is made thick the pellet will not be able to vibrate it .. then how the sound will get generated? This did the job.
3. Used my old radio controlled toy car, increased its range so that it can work from 10 meters.
4. Replaced its DC motor with my own circuit and a stepper motor. The stepper motor which I used turns 1.8 degree per pulse.
5. Used a Atmega Microcontroller to program the motor so that the rotation of the motor can be controller by the joy stick of the car remote.
6. Calculated how much distance the target card travels when the motor rotates 1.8 degree. Based on that programmed the microcontroller in such a way that on forward and backward movement of the joy stick will bring the next or previous card in front of the open area.
7. Attached a wireless cctv camera in front of the target and adjusted in such a way that best view is captured.
8. The receiver of the camera is connected to a small 5.5 inch b/w TV and which shows the target. Though the image is not the true image ( little oval) but more than enough to show the score.
9. Both the stepper motor and roller pair which is attached to the stepper motor was removed from a broken fax printer which I had brought by paying only Rs 30 from the Junk market of Bangalore ( a Sunday market near KR Market)
10. Almost every thing except the plywood and CCTV (Rx TX set )set was from home scraps. and starting from wood work to electronics .. i tried to manage myself.
Why I made this..
This place was used for washing cloths and my washing machine is placed there. A gate is there to secure my washing machine. So it did not allow me to put a normal target changer. Now I can use this as shooting range and can still keep my washing m/c there.
