Hi,
So i'm very new to this forum, as in this is my first post.
I have had some previous experience with Arduino when I helped a fellow student last year with some programming, where I know a bit of web based stuff, PHP, java etc.
Anyways...
I am going into my last year of Uni, where I'm studying an Imaging Science degree and I am wanting to built a camera sensor, to place into what's called a view camera, something like a sinar norma (the ones you put a blanket over you head for!)
So I'm asking if this is going to possible;
Basically I want to cram as many sensors (I'm planning on using LED's - unless anyone knows of anything better?) into the area as possible, I worked out a while back that over 5 x 4 inches, I could get an array of about 30 x 30, which is 900. Obviously this isn't going to be a high resolution sensor, but it will be enough for me to gain and image so do experiments on to fulfill the criteria of my project.
So what I intend on doing;
Each sensor will act as a pixel, giving a reading back when light hits it, in other words, I can open the shutter on the camera for an amount of time and the sesnor will collect the light falling on it and send back a signal. I believe this to be possible.
The sensors need to be placed into some form of board, I have done a little research and I'm hoping it's possible to buy a board off the shelf and literally plug them into it and then write a program to read their locations? like an array on a while loop or something, this is where I need a yes or no.
Final question (for now) is, can an Arduino board except this amount of inputs?
Any help would be appreciated, I will be starting this project at the start of the next school year, september and will need it finished (with 20,000 words backing it up) by the end of the year, June 2013, sounds like a lot of time, but it's really not!
Thanks in advance,
Simon