Hello guys
A complete ignorant in electronics here plz help!
I am going to buy a machine vision camera. Also LED controller unit with customized pulsing and current etc via ethernet on computer. I want both camera and LED to pulse together so I save images at a certain speed.
The scheme is attached, from a colleague, for connecting everything.
I also got the code for Arduino Uno below to do triggering at 1 hz.
HOWEVER, I don't know how to connect the arduino, what other elements do I need, I've never seen one before.
Also how to put the code below, and is that enough and that's it?
In addition, plz tell me how is arduino going to trigger if LED is already controlled by LED controller (including pulse speed etc).
Any comments, suggestions, improvements, etc are much appreciated.
toto_papa:
In addition, plz tell me how is Arduino going to trigger if LED is already controlled by LED controller (including pulse speed etc).
Good question!
You have a lot of work to do.
First in respect of posting questions here. Go and read the instructions, then go back and modify your post to mark up the code as such so we can examine it comfortably and reliably. It is only a small bit at present, but it is an important discipline if we are going to discuss such things.
Next, understand that you have not by any means adequately described the components to which you refer. You may have them in front of you and thus understand what they are, we do not. So you need to post web-links to each part (except the Arduino, with which we are entirely familiar of course ). Also explain more clearly what the overall purpose of this system is.
Finally, your coding so far is very crude - it will not generate exactly 1 Hz. Does this actually matter or not? That defines how much further effort need be put into it. Whilst Arduinox are actually fairly cheap and versatile, if you only wanted an accurate 1 Hz, there are much simpler ways of obtaining that.
). Also explain more clearly what the overall purpose of this system is.