Harvard Students Built a Balloon-Tracking Turret Inspired by a Mobile Game

What happens when a childhood mobile game inspires a real-world engineering project? Harvard SEAS students Raul Guerra, Miguel Chora, Jonathan Manzo, and Paul Perez created “BANANA,” an interactive turret system designed to track and “target” moving balloons using computer vision and embedded systems.

Inspired by the popular game Bloons TD Battles, the project combines a Raspberry Pi, Arduino, camera vision, servos, ultrasonic sensors, and LED indicators to detect motion and respond in real time. The system follows balloons across multiple axes and activates when a user’s hand reaches a specific trigger distance.

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