Hello? Are you still there? Programmer Jonathan Guberman and artist Leigh Nunan collaborated to create a plush version of the lethal, adorable Aperture Science sentry turrets from Portal and Portal II. The tot-sized turret is Arduino-controlled, and when it something crosses its line of site, it utters some of the same soothing-voiced dialogue as an in-game turret would; ditto when it’s picked up or tilted over.
Yet more to get excited about, and possibly a little scared about: Gruberman says his friend Dana Finchan is working with him on a fully functional, life-sized turret: “I think once that’s done we’re going to work on making it fully functional: not just sensors and sounds, but opening side panels and perhaps even throwing some Nerf or Airsoft guns in there.” Meanwhile, someone has made a life-sized Portal turret PC case (which, sadly, we didn’t see when we made our roundup of the best PC casemods, even though the Companion Cube casemod was one of our favorites).
(via Escapist | Creator’s blog post)
