First, what it doesn’t do: The Turret doesn’t split up the middle ... are used to playback various sound bytes from the Portal games, making it a great piece of desk art for those working ...

we regularly see hackers applying their skills in recreating some of the game’s elements. One beautiful example is [Joran de Raaff]’s physical rendition of a Portal Turret. Inside the Turret ...

One of the hallmark traits of the Portal sentry turret is the eerie sound bites they spout when you're detected. To pull this off, Reckless_commenter is using Pygame to play soundbites from the game.