In an effort to understand the kinds of improvised weapons, devices, and systems that could be used against US forces in the field today, the Defense Research Projects Agency's Defense Science Office is preparing for an alternative sort of "improv" performance. DARPA is inviting researchers, developers, and hardware-hacking hobbyists to join in, and the goal of the planned jam session is to discover ways that off-the-shelf commercial technology could be modified to be used against the military by its adversaries. The US military has dealt with a wide range of improvised weapons and tools in the hands of adversaries over the past decade, including cell phone activated improvised explosives, off-the-shelf software used to intercept drone video feeds, and USB drives laden with malware that ran rampant on computer networks in Afghanistan. Today there's growing concern about how commercial and consumer drone and robotics technology, Internet-of-Things devices, and other burgeoning technology could be used to spy on, harass, impede, or even kill members of the military.

So today, DARPA officially unveiled Improv—a program that will fund "innovative research proposals for prototype products and systems that have the potential to threaten current military operations, equipment, or personnel and are assembled primarily from commercially available technology," according to the announcement. The rules are pretty straightforward. best vacuum cleaner yahoo"Proposers are free to reconfigure, repurpose, program, reprogram, modify, combine, or recombine commercially available technology in any way within the bounds of local, state, and federal laws and regulations," the announcement noted. oxygen vacuum cleaner bags"Use of components, products, and systems from non-military technical specialties (e.g., transportation, construction, maritime, and communications) is of particular interest."vacuum cleaner seattle

Part of this broad-based hacker "red-teaming" of potential improvised threats is focused on what can be done within a tight budget and a tight deadline. Selected "performers" will compete against each other for a chance to build their prototype during a short DARPA-funded feasibility study phase (with up to $40,000 funding per individual awards). The performing teams will have only two weeks to construct a prototype once they've been chosen, with up to $70,000 additional funding and up to $20,000 for provisioning for the evaluation test. Winning performances may be selected by DARPA for a follow-up study on how to develop countermeasures to the improvised technologies. So here's your chance to build that killer Roomba hack you've always dreamed of, or maybe an actual Fallout 4 Tactical Junk Jet—and get a foot in the door with DARPA. The program is open to all, including foreign nationals (with a bit of extra paperwork), since there's nothing particularly secret about off-the-shelf hardware and software.

Cases and Missions • Characters • Weapons • Stores • Endings The Vacuum Cleaner is a weapon in Dead Rising 2. It is a common household appliance. The Vacuum Cleaner can be combined with a saw blade, to create the Exsanguinator, which sucks zombies in and grinds them up. Skin of Vacuum Cleaner from PC game files Vacuum Cleaner Weapon EffectI hope you guys understand what I mean and help me =) I want to create an effect as a Vacuum Cleaner when im pressing the left mouse button. The effect can be seen in this game for example: https://youtu.be/i-tZPDhlKUs?t=3m16s (mute your sound first =P) I have an weapon and spheres, I wish to make the weapon suck the spheres, almost the same way its done in the video. My initial idea was to make a cone overlay like this: to be the range of the weapon and where this force is applied and a cube to destroy the spheres when they are close to the weapon(I don`t know an easy way to do that). The Weapon EventGraph atm is like this(where i made the Cone):

I can destroy the spheres when they enter on the cube, but the effect on the spheres made by the weaponbp doesn`t seem right. The cone just throw some spheres away and sometimes pull one sphere or 2 to the cube inside. I guess im applying the radial effect with wrong values or I didn`t understand how radial force in a cone is applied. Another question, I created a left mouse button pressed variable(boolean) and I need to check an boolean value in FirstPersonBP in WeaponBP but when I set this variable to public and use it at WeaponBP(it is in FPBP initially) it asks for a target(blue node) what should I put on that? And finally, how can i stop an sphere from moving: I guess if I stop it, before the weapon suck the movement would be a lot more uniform(my spheres has physics on). Thanks for your help and sorry about my english. Jan 28 '16 at 04:54 AM So guys I'm sorry to be late on the answers, I didn't got the email from the first question or I skipped it without notice.

The basic idea is to shutdown the spheres or something you want to pull physics and then and restart physics right before you apply the force at the spheres, the idea is to control easier the spheres with that. After that we apply a force with Cone like before but the position adjustment is necessary to make the effects look good. Here comes the blueprints: The first image is the Weapon click to pull the spheres where it calls the function ApplyPhysics? After that this is the ApplyPhysics? function, where you shut down the spheres physics and apply force on it after restarting the physics to make the gravity forces weaker. In this function I have the cone which applies the force and the first square is where the spheres are killed and absorved. Hope that helps guys! Sep 22 '16 at 01:13 AM Up to 5 attachments (including images) can be used with a maximum of 5.2 MB each and 5.2 MB total.A wide variety of household items are used as weapons in violent crimes, including vacuum cleaner hoses.

Police say vacuum cleaners, road cones and mobile phones are among the more unconventional "weapons" being used in a growing number of opportunistic crimes.Figures provided to Stuff showed almost half of all weapons offences in New Zealand over the past two years involved items described as "weapons of opportunity".Firearms, sharp weapons and blunt instruments made up 56 per cent of weapon offences since July 2014 (6254 out of 10,501 offences) but the rest were classified as "other"; a catch-all term for everything else you can think of.Data from the "other" category of weapons wasn't broken down into specific items, but Inspector Dave Glossop said it covered everything from fence palings, cell phones and gardening equipment to household items.READ MORE: * Two police shootings in a week renew calls to limit officers' access to firearms * Police ask Armageddon attendees to cover their fake weapons​ * Student 'removed' after taking replica weapon to private school​"Anything that can be swung can be used as a weapon," he said of the trend of people attacking each other with whatever they had at hand."

The main weapons we see in relation to the use of weapons and violence is weapons of opportunity; that's probably the growing area." In his 28 years in the police Glossop said he had seen a variety of weapons "as wide and broad as you can imagine"."One fight was outside a nightclub, there was a building site being dug up and people were swinging pieces of effluent pipe at each other. Or at inorganic rubbish collections, people grabbing vacuum cleaner hoses to attack each other."Nothing nowadays would surprise me as to what someone could use." Counties Manukau, where Glossop is based, had the highest rate of weapons offences of any police district, with 1937 recorded "weapon victimisations" in the past two years.Part of that was attributed to weapons confiscated at Auckland International Airport, while there was also a high rate of people getting drunk at private properties and lashing out with weapons, Glossop said.Bay of Plenty was second with 1073 overall weapon offences, followed by Canterbury 959, Wellington 923, Auckland City 919 and Waikato 914.The Tasman district, covering Nelson, Marlborough and the West Coast, had the lowest number of weapons offences, 278, which included just nine victimisations involving a firearm.

Overall statistics showed firearms made up about 10 per cent of weapons offences, while sharp instruments; knives, glass bottles etc. accounted for 20 per cent.Glossop said gun and knife crime had remained steady or declined across most districts, which was an encouraging trend.But he said he was concerned about people carrying around weapons or keeping them in their car for protection - which could be an offence without a lawful excuse.The danger, he said, was the risk of weapon escalation."If the baddies start thinking everybody's armed with something then they'll carry a bigger weapon and before you know it we're talking about firearms and before you know it we're going to hell in a handbasket."Too many people think it's OK to keep possession of something that they'll carry with them to protect themselves. If everybody starts doing that then we may as well move to America."'OTHER' WEAPONS OFFENCES IN PAST TWO YEARS*OVERALL WEAPONS OFFENCES IN PAST TWO YEARS**Victimisations involving the use of weapons July 2014 - April 2016