TreadBot

[skimask]

im using a rebel XT, it will take aprox. 3 Pictures a second. two of those pics were taken out my bedroom window, and the other was on a camping trip. it was on the other side of the lake. usually i take around 500 pictures during a thunderstorm, and i get about 15 "ok" pics of lightning... this trigger im making, uses one of about 10 16f88s i have laying around, a 9V battery and it all fits inside an altoids container that i made a mount for to fit on the hotshoe of my camera. if it doesnt work for lightning, i will just modify it to fire a flash to use as a slave.

If the photocells don't respond fast enough, I wonder if using a photodiode, prebiased with a little bit of voltage, connected to an A/D input, continuously sampled would respond fast.
It would be neat if I could get pictures like that, but I live in a bit of a valley with trees all around. Not much of a horizontal view unless I get up about 100ft...at least I get deer walking thru the yard every morning and evening.

[dragons_fire]

yeah, there not bad. i would like to take better pics, but i like being in the safety of my house.. when we get thunderstorms, we usually get some hail with it.. i would like to go out in my sidekick to somewhere good, but im afraid of the hail going through my soft top.


i think i finally got everything with the 6585 right now.. thanks to everyone for all the help.. im just looking through old threads trying to figure out how to get rid of the "warning[230]" config message...

[skimask]

im just looking through old threads trying to figure out how to get rid of the "warning[230]" config message...

An upgrade to PBP 2.47 should get rid of it from what I've heard.
I'm still running 2.46 (no need for the upgrade yet and I'm a bit lazy), I just ignore the errors.

[dragons_fire]

i just went in and edited the inc file... added "w = -230"
no more errors..

hopefully i will have a new PIC by wednesday, so i can put this all together and maybe get it moving...

[skimask]

i just went in and edited the inc file... added "w = -230"
no more errors..
hopefully i will have a new PIC by wednesday, so i can put this all together and maybe get it moving...

Are you just going to 'fix' the old board or what?

[dragons_fire]

well, i found more stuff wrong with it... so i will probably make a new board... i had the memory card writer header on backwards...

ive been testing the card writer with a 877a, and its pretty neat..

[dragons_fire]

Update:

i havent done too much work on it in the last couple days. the ECM in my truck went bad, so im trying to figure out if its fixable, or if i need to replace it... its a 91 Suzuki Sidekick, adn all the electronics and half the engine parts are made by Mitsubishi.

i have the Rogue Robotics UMMC SD card reader/writer working great now. it just takes serial data and stores it to a card. i can store a "label" and a VAR Byte to it for each one of my variables for this robot.. with a 1gig card, i can fit almost 100,000,000 logs on it and then stick the card into my computer and read it all in notepad. i dont have an actual use for this yet (for this robot, i can think of many uses for other things), but i think its going to be neat to look at everything on my computer..

my new PIC and other parts came today, so i will make the board over the next couple days, and hopefully it will work good this time...