There was an eclipse today! In Minnesota, we saw 83% coverage which was pretty impressive. It was cloudy that day which seemed like it would be disappointing but the cloud cover made it easy to photograph the sun without any filters.
I won't clutter this blog with eclipse pictures but I have a photo album with some more. One of the easiest ways to photograph the sun was to catch its reflection in a car window so some of my sunbeam pictures were bounced off a Beamer first.
Enough background.
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A second tagger was assembled. A pre-wire butt stock and pre-wired forward array were added and all the wires were stripped. Wires to the reload button and trigger were connected and stripped. Everything was run to another control board with an unprogrammed Arduino. This tagger was wired with all the standard color wires.
Sensor modules were added to the sides of the tagger. The holes had to be drilled out since the available screws were too large. This broke one of the traces so that had to be repaired with some scrap wire. The next revision of the sensor boards should accommodate larger screws and the next time these boards are used, the correctly sized screws should be available.
A short video was taken with a probe camera as it was pulled through the inside of the tagger. This doesn't prove anything or serve any purpose other than it was kind of neat to see inside the tagger while it was assembled. The video is approximately forty-one seconds long.
The assembled taggers were placed together for a quick photograph. With two taggers, it will be possible to conduct an actual game with real equipment. The newly assembled tagger is near the top of the picture.
Downloads:
The rest of the posts for this project have been arranged by date
First time here?
Completed projects from year 1
Completed projects from year 2
Completed projects from year 3
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2017-08-21 (M)
I won't clutter this blog with eclipse pictures but I have a photo album with some more. One of the easiest ways to photograph the sun was to catch its reflection in a car window so some of my sunbeam pictures were bounced off a Beamer first.
Partial eclipse
Enough background.
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A second tagger was assembled. A pre-wire butt stock and pre-wired forward array were added and all the wires were stripped. Wires to the reload button and trigger were connected and stripped. Everything was run to another control board with an unprogrammed Arduino. This tagger was wired with all the standard color wires.
Tagger #2 control board
Sensor modules were added to the sides of the tagger. The holes had to be drilled out since the available screws were too large. This broke one of the traces so that had to be repaired with some scrap wire. The next revision of the sensor boards should accommodate larger screws and the next time these boards are used, the correctly sized screws should be available.
Sensor board mounted on tagger
A short video was taken with a probe camera as it was pulled through the inside of the tagger. This doesn't prove anything or serve any purpose other than it was kind of neat to see inside the tagger while it was assembled. The video is approximately forty-one seconds long.
Internal tagger video
The assembled taggers were placed together for a quick photograph. With two taggers, it will be possible to conduct an actual game with real equipment. The newly assembled tagger is near the top of the picture.
Two wired and assembled taggers
Downloads:
- Arduino firmware
- OpenSCAD code
- STL printable models
- STL printable pipe dividers
- Python Last-Man-Standing program
- Gerber files for SMT IR Sensor board
- Gerber files for controller board
- Gerber files for homemade controller board (thicker traces than the previous version)
- Public project page for controller board
- Public project page for sensor board
- Switch wrench model
- Color code card
The rest of the posts for this project have been arranged by date
First time here?
Completed projects from year 1
Completed projects from year 2
Completed projects from year 3
Disclaimer for http://24hourengineer.blogspot.com/ and 24hourengineer.com
This disclaimer must be intact and whole. This disclaimer must be included if a project is distributed.
All information in this blog, or linked by this blog, is not to be taken as advice or solicitation. Anyone attempting to replicate, in whole or in part, is responsible for the outcome and procedure. Any loss of functionality, money, property or similar, is the responsibility of those involved in the replication.
All digital communication regarding the email address 24hourengineer@gmail.com becomes the intellectual property of Brian McEvoy. Any information contained within these messages may be distributed or retained at the discretion of Brian McEvoy. Any email sent to this address, or any email account owned by Brian McEvoy, cannot be used to claim property or assets.
Comments to the blog may be utilized or erased at the discretion of the owner. No one posting may claim property or assets based on a post.
This blog, including pictures and text, is copyright to Brian McEvoy.
2017-08-21 (M)
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