Hi all
I am an electrical contractor by trade and dabbled with electronics in the past but rustier by the day.
I am looking to make a race track for our Awana and would like to add some wow to it. It is a downhill drag race for wooden cars.
I would like to push a button and have an LED Christmas tree count down from red, yellow, yellow, yellow and then green. When the green LED lights I would like an electric solenoid to trip the starting gate and allow the cars to start.
I was looking at the finish lines that are common to these with the photo sensor and light above it tied to a circuit that would signify the winning lane, second place and then third place maybe with led numbers.
Last year I had a camcorder over the finish line wired into a computer to record and project on a screen ,the winning cars. The starting line right now is just a rod yanked to drop the starting gate but this shakes the whole track.
Any help in this project is widely accepted.
Thanks
I am an electrical contractor by trade and dabbled with electronics in the past but rustier by the day.
I am looking to make a race track for our Awana and would like to add some wow to it. It is a downhill drag race for wooden cars.
I would like to push a button and have an LED Christmas tree count down from red, yellow, yellow, yellow and then green. When the green LED lights I would like an electric solenoid to trip the starting gate and allow the cars to start.
I was looking at the finish lines that are common to these with the photo sensor and light above it tied to a circuit that would signify the winning lane, second place and then third place maybe with led numbers.
Last year I had a camcorder over the finish line wired into a computer to record and project on a screen ,the winning cars. The starting line right now is just a rod yanked to drop the starting gate but this shakes the whole track.
Any help in this project is widely accepted.
Thanks