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Pop culture is littered with references to robots in science-fiction that eventually become smarter than their creators and eventually turn evil and decide that they have no further use for human beings.
In I, Robot, Detective Del Spooner, played by Will Smith, is a serious technophobe whose hatred of all things robotic seems to be justified when a robot is the prime suspect in the death of a prolific scientist specialising in robotics.
The Terminator trilogy takes a look at what might happen in the future in an apocalyptic war when robots turn against human beings and when one robot (or two or three) travels back in time to the present day to try to change the fate of the world.
Is the DIY robot sentry taking the evil robot scenario one step closer to reality?
In perhaps what might be an argument for what happens when you let your son play with toy guns as a child, this Gadget Freak built a backyard robot with a motion sensor with built-in night vision and the ability to track and shoot victims in the heart.
We wonder might have been if the creator used his powers for good instead of evil.
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