I am just a student, and this project is just for fun; if successful it’s just for interview conversation purposes.
overview: I want to make a ‘dartboard’ish thing that can tell me where bullseye is via IR sensors and PLC and hopefully some type of txt-to-speech output.
So, the IR emitter where my ‘dart’ is will be like a suction cup gun thing with the emitter aimed to a glass dart board(because IR) <— (and receivers will be behind the glass), and the dart board will have a collage of IR recievers in each area of the dart board. And will be wired together in octants to feed 8 different signals/inputs to the PLC, being (up,down,left,right, up/left, up/right, down/right, down/left) <—- and those will be my txt-to-speech outputs to tell me where to aim for my bullseye, and I suppose I’ll have a bullseye IR reciever to tell me “on target”. And the outcome is I can aim a suction cup gun to hit the bullseye without me looking at it/ just hearing the output commands for adjustment.
I havnt started this at all,just like 3 days of thought into this. Some hiccups I can foresee are the preciseness of emitter to reciever it will have to be beam like to trigger an accurate command output. And IR acts more of a array with angles , I will look into narrowing the emitter with foil funneling maybe, and close the eye some of the recievers with foil. And will have to do research into TTS with the PLC outcome. That thought originated when I was thinking of doing this with Python and a raspberry pi. And it’s sort of simple to have a TTS. But I would rather use a PLC.
when looking further into this I read things like low-pass filters with resistors and capasictors on IR recievers, (the only knowledge I can get help on is looking into laser tag technology and it’s hard to translate into what I’m trying to do).
I suppose no specific questions right now but any pointers or guidance would be appreciated.
as of now my next steps was buying a emitter and a couple recievers with LED’S on them and start looking into the angles and precision that a reciever can see a signal(so that half a dart board won’t be seeing the IR emitter) and range, and by the way this will be on about a 6’-10’ range. Preferably.
if I’m in over my head and this project is worse than I think let me know lol. I have an associates degree in electromechanical tech, and a junior in engineering technology, so yall semi know my knowledge base. I don’t have a career in this.
*the second part of the project is the actual suction cup gun thing. I’m not sure if I’ll ever get this far but I might want it on a robotic tilt table programmed to a joy stick for aiming. And have a small pneumatic air gun with a toy suction cup thing, like the things the size of your finger. Electronically controlled.
Update: looking into acoustic recievers, details in one of these comments. Not sure the direction I’ll go at this time .
overview: I want to make a ‘dartboard’ish thing that can tell me where bullseye is via IR sensors and PLC and hopefully some type of txt-to-speech output.
So, the IR emitter where my ‘dart’ is will be like a suction cup gun thing with the emitter aimed to a glass dart board(because IR) <— (and receivers will be behind the glass), and the dart board will have a collage of IR recievers in each area of the dart board. And will be wired together in octants to feed 8 different signals/inputs to the PLC, being (up,down,left,right, up/left, up/right, down/right, down/left) <—- and those will be my txt-to-speech outputs to tell me where to aim for my bullseye, and I suppose I’ll have a bullseye IR reciever to tell me “on target”. And the outcome is I can aim a suction cup gun to hit the bullseye without me looking at it/ just hearing the output commands for adjustment.
I havnt started this at all,just like 3 days of thought into this. Some hiccups I can foresee are the preciseness of emitter to reciever it will have to be beam like to trigger an accurate command output. And IR acts more of a array with angles , I will look into narrowing the emitter with foil funneling maybe, and close the eye some of the recievers with foil. And will have to do research into TTS with the PLC outcome. That thought originated when I was thinking of doing this with Python and a raspberry pi. And it’s sort of simple to have a TTS. But I would rather use a PLC.
when looking further into this I read things like low-pass filters with resistors and capasictors on IR recievers, (the only knowledge I can get help on is looking into laser tag technology and it’s hard to translate into what I’m trying to do).
I suppose no specific questions right now but any pointers or guidance would be appreciated.
as of now my next steps was buying a emitter and a couple recievers with LED’S on them and start looking into the angles and precision that a reciever can see a signal(so that half a dart board won’t be seeing the IR emitter) and range, and by the way this will be on about a 6’-10’ range. Preferably.
if I’m in over my head and this project is worse than I think let me know lol. I have an associates degree in electromechanical tech, and a junior in engineering technology, so yall semi know my knowledge base. I don’t have a career in this.
*the second part of the project is the actual suction cup gun thing. I’m not sure if I’ll ever get this far but I might want it on a robotic tilt table programmed to a joy stick for aiming. And have a small pneumatic air gun with a toy suction cup thing, like the things the size of your finger. Electronically controlled.
Update: looking into acoustic recievers, details in one of these comments. Not sure the direction I’ll go at this time .
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