Hi all,
just to introduce myself, I'm Simon and am currently training to be a Design and Technology teacher at brighton University. However my experience is all in automotive and abrasive materials rather than electronics so would appreciate any advice given.
My current project is to design a pistol firing range, so that one person can practice for competition shoots.
the shoot runs like this;
firer presses start on control panel,
10 second pause,
buzzer sounds,
random pause between 3 - 10 seconds,
buzzer sounds to start shoot.
at this point I would like a stopwatch to start, displaying seconds, 1/10ths and 1/100ths.
Firer must fire at five targets up to 25 metres away.
i would like each target to illuminate an LED on control panel when hit, and the fifth target should illuminate an LED but also stop the stopwatch.
My Ideas so far:
Have found some code on random here already and am happy with the outcome for the second pause.
was thinking of using a digital stopwatch and somehow using picaxe to start/stop/reset the clock, as I have looked around and figured it is very difficult to time to 1/100th sec, especially when you need the pic to be doing other stuff at the same time.
I was going to look further into using electret mics on each target and have borrowed Hippy's ideas for a circuit on that.
Sorry for the long post but wanted to give you as much info as possible. I would welcome advice on any issue's I may have, and would dearly like to hear peoples oppinions on which hardware would be best suited to this project.
Oh and feel free to criticise my initial thoughts as I am a novice, however my Shiny new picaxe Dice works a treat
Thanks in advance, all advice and info will be acknowledged in any work I produce as it will be for my final assessment
just to introduce myself, I'm Simon and am currently training to be a Design and Technology teacher at brighton University. However my experience is all in automotive and abrasive materials rather than electronics so would appreciate any advice given.
My current project is to design a pistol firing range, so that one person can practice for competition shoots.
the shoot runs like this;
firer presses start on control panel,
10 second pause,
buzzer sounds,
random pause between 3 - 10 seconds,
buzzer sounds to start shoot.
at this point I would like a stopwatch to start, displaying seconds, 1/10ths and 1/100ths.
Firer must fire at five targets up to 25 metres away.
i would like each target to illuminate an LED on control panel when hit, and the fifth target should illuminate an LED but also stop the stopwatch.
My Ideas so far:
Have found some code on random here already and am happy with the outcome for the second pause.
was thinking of using a digital stopwatch and somehow using picaxe to start/stop/reset the clock, as I have looked around and figured it is very difficult to time to 1/100th sec, especially when you need the pic to be doing other stuff at the same time.
I was going to look further into using electret mics on each target and have borrowed Hippy's ideas for a circuit on that.
Sorry for the long post but wanted to give you as much info as possible. I would welcome advice on any issue's I may have, and would dearly like to hear peoples oppinions on which hardware would be best suited to this project.
Oh and feel free to criticise my initial thoughts as I am a novice, however my Shiny new picaxe Dice works a treat
Thanks in advance, all advice and info will be acknowledged in any work I produce as it will be for my final assessment