I've been thinking about a near future idea where people an play a real world RTS with RC cars and drones that fire small 22 rounds.
The vehicles could be assembled inside a small factory full of automated open source 3d printers/mills/pick and places/robot arms.
You could have different people playing different kinds of games with some users driving little RC tanks, or operating little turrets on stationary buildings, or driving cargo trucks that go pick up resources to feed the factory, and then others doing totally different activities like operating the factory or designing new machines for the factory to build / be built of.
I figure you could set this up in some rural state like Montana with cheap land / few gun regulations and let people pay to play, if it's successful enough your customer base will basically be doing R&D / mechanical turking your Von Neuman probe development and then when it gets small enough you can stick a couple factories on a rocket, launch 'em to the moon and make the sequel to the game be set in space...
In the US it is generally illegal to manufacture or modify any repeating firearm with a software controlled firing mechanism. The ATF considers those to be too easy to turn into machine guns. I think you would need to acquire an existing pre-ban registered machine gun, or get a license to manufacture machine guns for military and law enforcement (difficult and expensive).
Oddly enough, I’ve just recently been exposed to livestreams where people are sitting in giant racing-sim setups and controlling RC cars over the internet.
I've been thinking about a near future idea where people an play a real world RTS with RC cars and drones that fire small 22 rounds.
The vehicles could be assembled inside a small factory full of automated open source 3d printers/mills/pick and places/robot arms.
You could have different people playing different kinds of games with some users driving little RC tanks, or operating little turrets on stationary buildings, or driving cargo trucks that go pick up resources to feed the factory, and then others doing totally different activities like operating the factory or designing new machines for the factory to build / be built of.
I figure you could set this up in some rural state like Montana with cheap land / few gun regulations and let people pay to play, if it's successful enough your customer base will basically be doing R&D / mechanical turking your Von Neuman probe development and then when it gets small enough you can stick a couple factories on a rocket, launch 'em to the moon and make the sequel to the game be set in space...