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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Has anyone made an Arduino to trigger camera / flash | |
I am trying to get two of my grandchildren interested in electronics/computers/photography. I has an idea to use an Arduino microprocessor to sense the breaking of a laser beam. Searching the interwebby has yielded some results but not exactly what I hoped for.
I want to acquire several 'starter kits' and build the controllers with them - breadboarding, no soldering. One of the issues I saw immediately was that most DIY'ers who have done this already use a photo resistor - something that I think can be improved on by using a photo transistor. The transistor will respond to light changes much faster. It appears to be a trivial task for the Arduino.
The second part of the project would be to have a contest to photograph some high speed event like a marble falling into a bowl of milk, a balloon breaking, etc. Hopefully by making this easy to do I can peak their interests in these subjects.
The devil is in the details as they say. I am not sure if i am overthinking this . . .
Any suggestions (other than buying something already made) would be greatly appreciated.
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