Newb: can someone confirm my button circuit?

Thanks for the help Mathieu!

The whole idea is to take pictures of water drops.

I plan to use:

  • a solenoid for controlling flow of water drops eletronically
  • a photogate laser trigger (already have this working)
  • a loudspeaker and amplifier (my hometheater subwoofer, I need a simpler speaker :smiley: )
  • camera and high speed flashes (have that too)

Steps:

  • Arduino activates camera on long exposure (3 seconds), that should be easy, I plan to use a 4N28 optocoupler
  • Arduino activates solenoid (another optocoupler), that produces a water drop
  • The falling drop crosses a laser beam (it turns on the SCR from my original question here)
  • Arduino detects the SCR close, then wait X miliseconds
  • Arduino activates the loudspeaker... it has another water drop on top of it
  • Arduino waits Y miliseconds
  • Arduino activates a wireless flash trigger, that activates multiple flashes (another optocoupler)

By adjusting X and Y miliseconds, I plan to capture the exact moment the 2 waterdrops splash on each other.

I was able to make it work separate... now I want it togheter... Here's some results:

Using a sound trigger, activated by loudspeaker, with a delay to wait the waterdrop formation:

A waterdrop on a US dime 0.10 cent coin, falling from 2 feet, detected by laser:

I did both photos :slight_smile:

The only thing missing for my whole setup is connecting everything togheter on Arduino to get miliseconds precision, I'm tired of adjusting delays on potentiometers... and the solenoid I just started researching.