i wish i could email or pm this to you tom, but you have thoes options disabled. moderators, if you feel this is not sutable for a public forum, please delete it.
tom, i talked to you a little about an ace sensor that you would not have to adjust at the tech conference at the iao.
you could easily whip up something that would not require any adjustment of the sensitivity of the eye with a pot, or adjusting the delay that would enabeling fire after the threshold of the sensor was met. this could be done without any modification to the emag board, and be contained alone in the ace board. the key part is about $1 in quanities of 1000 (save probally about $.30 for ditching the pot and it's not so bad).
the key part is the picmicro 12f675, this is a 8 pin microcontroller with a built in oscillator, the only one with flash memory in 8 pins with analog inputs. the code between the low end picmicro microcontrollers is compatable so you could dump it in a one time programable part if the package type you want is not redily avalible.
here is the key, the microcontroller would measure the output from the detector half of the sensor (phototransistor/photoresistor....). off of the top of my head, i don't think that it would be unreasonable to take 10 or 20 measurements per millisecond. the microcontroller would enable the firing of the marker when the signal from the sensor stopped increasing (ball on bottom of the breach). there are other checks that you could have the microcontroller do to see if the ball is ready to fire.
this system would probally alow slightly faster detection than your current system. it could disable fire if a ball bounces up a little from jumping, diving into a bunker till that ball is seated again. it would take the calabration time away. it is inexpensive too.
you might be asking why i am talking to you about this, your sensor is the only one that would take advantage of this idea, i don't see myself using this idea in any of my own projects, so i figure, why not let agd use it to make a better paintball gun.
tom, i talked to you a little about an ace sensor that you would not have to adjust at the tech conference at the iao.
you could easily whip up something that would not require any adjustment of the sensitivity of the eye with a pot, or adjusting the delay that would enabeling fire after the threshold of the sensor was met. this could be done without any modification to the emag board, and be contained alone in the ace board. the key part is about $1 in quanities of 1000 (save probally about $.30 for ditching the pot and it's not so bad).
the key part is the picmicro 12f675, this is a 8 pin microcontroller with a built in oscillator, the only one with flash memory in 8 pins with analog inputs. the code between the low end picmicro microcontrollers is compatable so you could dump it in a one time programable part if the package type you want is not redily avalible.
here is the key, the microcontroller would measure the output from the detector half of the sensor (phototransistor/photoresistor....). off of the top of my head, i don't think that it would be unreasonable to take 10 or 20 measurements per millisecond. the microcontroller would enable the firing of the marker when the signal from the sensor stopped increasing (ball on bottom of the breach). there are other checks that you could have the microcontroller do to see if the ball is ready to fire.
this system would probally alow slightly faster detection than your current system. it could disable fire if a ball bounces up a little from jumping, diving into a bunker till that ball is seated again. it would take the calabration time away. it is inexpensive too.
you might be asking why i am talking to you about this, your sensor is the only one that would take advantage of this idea, i don't see myself using this idea in any of my own projects, so i figure, why not let agd use it to make a better paintball gun.
j/k
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