darkling , vor 12 Tagen

@foone PC LOAD 9MM

darkling , vor 12 Tagen

@foone It uses a mini-USB connector.

whitequark , vor 12 Tagen

@foone web camera (the cursed part is that someone would actually deploy this)

foone OP , vor 12 Tagen

@whitequark there was that thing where some US states have specifically banned "hunting-over-Webcam" because someone theorized Internet Hunting where you watch a Webcam and you have a button to shoot at the deer, remotely. It was never built, but it's now illegal in some states

foone OP , vor 12 Tagen

@whitequark also hi, I was thinking of you when I made this post. I was like "this is some whitequark-esque cursed shit"

dec_hl , vor 12 Tagen

@foone I thought virtual COM ports are more cursed than USB printers because there isn't a standard for it?
Am I wrong?

Also: to make it fire you should have to use postscript 🤣

Mareepy , vor 12 Tagen

@foone russian roulette with a usb-c plug that fires or doesn't based on the orientation of the plug

suchipi , vor 12 Tagen

@foone a printer that doesn't need weird proprietary drivers? that is cursed

18+ emily , vor 12 Tagen

@foone but first, it prints onto a bit of heatshrink and puts it around the bullet

18+ foone OP , vor 12 Tagen

Next bad idea; it shows up as a USB headset. The microphone input features a constant sinewave tone, and the frequency of the tone is the number of bullets remaining times 100hz.

The speaker out is the trigger. Play a loud enough noise and the gun will fire.

18+ foone OP , vor 12 Tagen

USB joystick: the physical trigger is now a soft trigger, mapped to an analog button. The Y axis is used for ammo count.
To fire, you use the rumble feature/force feedback

18+ seyye , vor 12 Tagen

@foone USB CD drive; To fire, seek to the track number equal to the number of bullets remaining.

18+ rasteri , vor 12 Tagen

@foone Mass storage device, create a file called "BANG" to fire

18+ aurorus , vor 12 Tagen

@foone i have news for you: https://www.steyr-sport.com/en/air-pistols/steyr-evo-10-e-evo-10-e-compact

18+ dekkia , vor 12 Tagen

@foone

> Play a loud enough noise and the gun will fire.

I think you accidentally invented Cops.

jgullberg , vor 12 Tagen

@foone the mental image of someone at a gun range, furiously yelling BANG into their mic as they aim downrange, while their friends quietly snicker and point to the unplugged cable

18+ halfur , vor 12 Tagen

@foone Now I'm imagining it as a MIDI device, and it reacts to any note event, but only when first sending a program change event for instrument 128 (Gunshot in General MIDI). Don't forget the classic MIDI Panic button in case a note "hangs" (might be problematic in fully automatic firearms).

18+ OchmennoPodcast , vor 12 Tagen

@foone gun to ps2 to com1 to usb adapter…. You will want to shoot yourself before the gun works

18+ Doridian , vor 12 Tagen

@foone So the firing mechanism is basically an irl version of what weird NES peripheral. x3 ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserScope )

18+ troldann , vor 12 Tagen

@foone as a chemistry lab technician, we use USB ion chromatographs. Ammo count can be encoded as the measured conductivity, pump speed setting can encode a turret rotation command, and “start sample” can fire.

18+ keengrasp , vor 12 Tagen

@foone muaaaaaaad'DIB

18+ keisisqrl , vor 12 Tagen

@foone hellschrieber gun

18+ jwildeboer , vor 12 Tagen

@foone The most cursed version I could think of to use USB PD firmware update. The firmware allows for exactly one shot, after that it needs a new signed version :) https://usb.org/document-library/usb-power-delivery-firmware-update-specification

danieldurrans , vor 12 Tagen

@foone Bullet Jam in bullet draw.

Warning: Take care not to shoot yourself when removing the bullet.

18+ owen , vor 12 Tagen

@foone Audio Accessory Mode has to be involved here somewhere.

18+ bhasic , vor 12 Tagen

@foone Guns should be IoT so they wouldn't work before installing update and get useless when the manufacturer doesn't feel like updating anymore.

18+ sean , vor 12 Tagen

@foone Proprietary-shaped (with extra low-current high-voltage pins) USB-A connector on the device side, inverted USB-B connector on the host side. Box contains 17 adaptor dongles; none of them fit quite right.

18+ mhoye , vor 12 Tagen

@foone "next slide please"

18+ gsuberland , vor 12 Tagen

@foone SATA controlled gun, to fire it you send the ATA Secure Erase command

18+ psilocervine , vor 12 Tagen

@foone It's not actually USB, it's a PS/2 port with one of those USB adapters built in

18+ shac , vor 12 Tagen

@foone It’s a USB-HID class device that identifies as a game controller, and you have to figure out which joystick or button activates the trigger.

18+ dunkelstern , vor 12 Tagen

@foone ESC/P2 commands to swivel the gun mapped to print head movement…

18+ DM_Ronin , vor 12 Tagen

@foone any network mesh-controlled gun, fires only at another holder of the same gun

curtmack , vor 12 Tagen

@foone Off the top of my head:

• Alphanumeric Display: fires when you write "BANG" to the display
• Braille Display Device: fires when you send ⠃⠁⠝⠛ to the display
• Magic Carpet Simulation Device: cursed in its own right, no further elaboration is required
• Firmware Transfer Device: send it a text file and it fires in morse code
• Watchdog Timer: fires if the Watchdog Timeout expires without timely intervention from software

18+ dzwiedziu , vor 12 Tagen

@foone
Why a gun when chain printers exist? :P

Variaxocellus , vor 12 Tagen

@foone It should also require an Ethernet connection but use it only as the sole power source via PoE

18+ PiiiepsBrummm , vor 12 Tagen

@foone It won't, because it is out of cyan bullets.

18+ growf , vor 12 Tagen

@foone It's not really a HID though; it's not destined to provide input to the PC. Maybe the personal healthcare device class would be a better fit?

18+ plaidtron3000 , vor 12 Tagen

@foone clearly it needs to be HID class. Because the HID class is ridiculously cursed out of the box, and then extended with HUTs and then shat on by developers who would rather intercept at the class level and do their own thing because fuck you that’s why.