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Originally Posted by Fasterthanyou
I'm looking into building a miniture drag strip that uses a standard laptop. The tricky part is going to be having multiple inputs. 2 cars and a start/finish beam = 4 inputs. The software I can write in an evening, the hardware on the other hand.... I'm thinking about infrared, it's the cheapest circuit. Now how to bring it into the computer is the hard part.
Damn you Tim, you got me working on yet another project AAHHHHHH.
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Sounds like an interesting project. A circuit that starts timing when the green light goes for both cars. Have it hooked up to a timer and a 7-segment display, displaying elapsed time for both cars, then when the car triggers the infrared beam at the finish, have it turn the timer off, and would subsequently display the ET on the display. Laptop interface might be to hard to implement, but im sure there's always a way. Either way, thats a pretty decent size project.
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