Aim-bots are no longer just found in games. A technically skilled guy has built a real-life aim-bot after many hours of work. You can wear it, and it makes sure that you barely miss with a bow and arrow. How it was done, you can find out here at MeinMMO.
Who is it about? Wighton from the YouTube channel “Stuff Made Here” is a tinkerer who likes to build crazy things, including a machine that automatically cuts hair or a basketball hoop that “catches” balls.
His latest project was a kind of aim-bot for real life, with which he shoots arrows with a bow so precisely that he never misses his target.
Why did he do it? The idea for the bow aim-bot came to him after watching old videos of his wife. She is a decent archer, and in the videos, she seems to hit every target. But “being good at something is so 20th century!” Wighton said, and immediately set out to compensate for his lack of skill with the bow through technology and engineering.
Bugs, wrong bow and a punch to the nose
How did the development go at first? Wighton first constructed two robots. One was a sort of glove to which the bow was attached, executing movements towards the target on the X and Y axes. The other bot was supposed to release the string at the right time.
However, this did not really work, and according to his own statement, Wighton ended up with “a heavy, crappy bow”.
To ensure that both robots had an accurate position of the target and the necessary shooting angles, he installed eight OptiCam cameras in the room. They covered every necessary angle and tracked the position of the target in real-time. With the camera data, the bots’ software could theoretically calculate the target’s position and its trajectory and thus make the perfect shot.
What were the problems? One major problem at the beginning was that Wighton regularly punched himself in the face. As soon as the bot released the string, the hand with the bot shot back due to the released energy and reliably hit Wighton’s nose. It took some practice to slow down the hand.
But even then, automatic hitting did not work. The aimbot shot miles off target, and the shooting test in a competition with his wife, who shot with a completely normal bow, was a landslide victory for his spouse.
Aimbot even hits tiny Lego figures
What did the final solution look like? After a long analysis, Wighton finally figured out the problem. It was likely due to the bow itself, as the recurve bow he was using was responsible for the arrow wobbling after being shot.
This could have been solved with decent software programming, but Wighton found that too tedious and preferred to invest some money in a modern compound bow. These are the bizarre devices that athletes compete with in high-level competitions.
Such bows shoot very precisely, and the arrows wobble less.
However, since the whole construction became very heavy, Wighton built a suspension that was attached to a type of body armor harness.
With this “full-body aimbot”, Wighton was finally ready and could beat his wife in every conceivable situation. His arrows hit the target with mechanical precision, and even tiny Lego figures could not escape.
In the end, technology triumphed over skill. However, Wighton might have become a good shooter in the end if he had spent the many weeks of work better on practicing archery.
How one can fail miserably despite aimbot in games is shown by this guy in Warzone.
