I appreciate that the claymore has a camera attached... to the claymore. Hopefully it's integrated with wifi and allows the user to drive the boomba. They've even circumvented the normal blasting caps somehow. Interesting choices lol but at least there's conceivably a man in the middle pushing the X button.
It's triggered by a blasting cap assembly, which detonates when given an electrical signal. This can be done by tripwire, like you see in movies (video games have like laser trip wires, which I suppose are possible, but don't know if they exist), or usually with a "clacker" (handheld detonater) connected by wire.
I have detonated one at a range before. It is pretty cool.
I own a weaponized Roomba for home defense, since that’s what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. 'What the devil?' As I grab my powdered wig and activate my autonomous sentry unit.
It bumps into the first man. Click-clack. The mounted 1911 fires a .45 ACP round, dropping him instantly. 'Good lord!' cries the second, but the Roomba pivots, its optical sensors locking on. It unleashes a suppressed burst from the top-mounted M4 carbine, shredding his lace cuffs.
The remaining two try to flee up the stairs, but they trigger the tripwire. The Claymore mine strapped to the dustbin detonates with a deafening roar, sending shrapnel through the foyer wallpaper. The last survivor, trembling in the corner, thinks he’s safe until he hears the whirring. The downstairs Roomba Mop Combo engages its miniature, high-torque chainsaw. It drags itself toward him, cleaning up the mess as it goes.
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lambisio@feddit.cl · 51 pts · 23d
Claymore roomba? Now this is the kind of content I come to the Fediverse for!
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 23d
Also known as a Boomba.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 22d
I appreciate that the claymore has a camera attached... to the claymore. Hopefully it's integrated with wifi and allows the user to drive the boomba. They've even circumvented the normal blasting caps somehow. Interesting choices lol but at least there's conceivably a man in the middle pushing the X button.
zarathustrad@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 22d
New type of "man in the middle" attack.
lambisio@feddit.cl · 3 pts · 22d
Maaaaan, how do you do it, I couldn't have come up with "Boomba" even if I was high on churu.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 22d
I didn't come up with it but somebody did and I appreciate their contribution to humanity.
negativenull@piefed.world · 22 pts · 22d
Doombas was right there
ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca · 21 pts · 22d
You mean the Ramboos?
HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 23d
That dog looks so confused.
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 23d
Trailer park Battlebots
WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 23d
I always thought their origin was a given & didn't need to be explicitly specified like that.
Psionicsickness@reddthat.com · 11 pts · 22d
Not to be a wet blanket, but wouldn’t the motion of the roomba moving immediately detonate the claymore?
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 22d
No
Psionicsickness@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 22d
Oh. Ok.
Follow up question: Why?
Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io · 8 pts · 22d
It's triggered by a blasting cap assembly, which detonates when given an electrical signal. This can be done by tripwire, like you see in movies (video games have like laser trip wires, which I suppose are possible, but don't know if they exist), or usually with a "clacker" (handheld detonater) connected by wire.
I have detonated one at a range before. It is pretty cool.
Psionicsickness@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 22d
Yeah I thought it worked like the vidjas. Thanks!
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 22d
Oh, that's cool! I really had no idea but saying no was more funny than saying I have no idea.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 22d
They basically exist. Like the floor sensors if a garage door opener.
tunetardis@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 22d
Burglar laughs. Then sees another roomba approaching the first with a blasting cap. "Oh, shit."
Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 22d
To actually be a wet blanket, booby traps are illegal and demonstrate premeditation. Its a funny idea though
Psionicsickness@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 22d
Premeditation? Yeah! I have a plan for an attack on my household!
Joking ofc.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 23d
The Robber
Danarchy@lemmy.nz · 7 pts · 22d
The chainsaw is the wrong direction to disenfootinate an intruder, Poindexter
Etterra@discuss.online · 6 pts · 22d
You want to put the chainsaw boy flat so that it saws the intruders off at the ankle.
Arachnidbrilliant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 22d
These are called Doombas.
mtpender@piefed.world · 4 pts · 22d
daannii@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 22d
What's top left?
Also for some reason the chainsaw is the scariest.
A hot soldering iron would also be terrifying.
DeadDigger@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 22d
Claymore mine just to make this clear this can destroy an armored vehicle
cabbagepatchcrabs@retrolemmy.com · 6 pts · 22d
Point towards enemy Stamped on one side
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 22d
The spicy side.
Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 17d
And some of them say "do not eat"
cavitationfetishist2@quokk.au · 4 pts · 23d
I would just leave. Clearly this person is cooler than me, and if they had money they spent it arming even more roombas.
WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 23d
It's all fun & games until your dog attacks the robber, too, and winds up shot.
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 23d
But my lord there is no such force
mynameisbob@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 23d
HAHA The chainsaw now that is crude 🤣
zarathustrad@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 22d
I own a weaponized Roomba for home defense, since that’s what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. 'What the devil?' As I grab my powdered wig and activate my autonomous sentry unit.
It bumps into the first man. Click-clack. The mounted 1911 fires a .45 ACP round, dropping him instantly. 'Good lord!' cries the second, but the Roomba pivots, its optical sensors locking on. It unleashes a suppressed burst from the top-mounted M4 carbine, shredding his lace cuffs.
The remaining two try to flee up the stairs, but they trigger the tripwire. The Claymore mine strapped to the dustbin detonates with a deafening roar, sending shrapnel through the foyer wallpaper. The last survivor, trembling in the corner, thinks he’s safe until he hears the whirring. The downstairs Roomba Mop Combo engages its miniature, high-torque chainsaw. It drags itself toward him, cleaning up the mess as it goes.