{"id":88409,"date":"2013-04-03T18:03:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T00:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=88409"},"modified":"2013-04-03T18:03:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T00:03:46","slug":"augmented-hunting-with-a-17500-linux-powered-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=88409","title":{"rendered":"Augmented Hunting With a $17,500 Linux-Powered Rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/culture\/2013\/4\/2\/4174004\/linux-powered-hunting-rifle-augments-viewfinder-tracks-targets\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A bullet loses six feet of height while flying across 1,000 yards, and a hunter firing such a shot must compensate by altering the weapon&#8217;s aim. At that distance, fine adjustments would be difficult to estimate \u2014 but TrackingPoint has developed a Linux-powered hunting rifle that&#8217;s capable of doing all of the calculations for the hunter. Ars Technica has an in-depth report on what it&#8217;s like to look through the $17,500 rifle&#8217;s scope when the target locks and the viewfinder tracks upward to locate the precise point where the weapon should be aimed. Building distance compensation into the hunter&#8217;s view is only part of what the embedded ARM computer is capable of: it can also follow targets, determine the precise moment when to fire, and stream video from the viewfinder to a paired iPad app.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We have the technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. A bullet loses six feet of height while flying across 1,000 yards, and a hunter firing such a shot must compensate by altering the weapon&#8217;s aim. At that distance, fine adjustments would be difficult to estimate \u2014 but TrackingPoint has developed a Linux-powered hunting rifle that&#8217;s capable of doing all of the calculations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-country"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88411,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88409\/revisions\/88411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}