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Project development, ideas, and suggestions / Open-Source Pyro Controller (Firing System for Fireworks)
Flexible/scalable systems will be good which can target users ranging from non-pro to professional users. On a non-pro user, this may prove to be safer because they don't need to hold the fireworks (as what most people are doing in the Philippines
) + they will have the opportunity to feel how to automate firework systems even on a small quantity. Basically these are just relays and I saw some systems that use Mosfet. + I saw some other features like overcurrent protection, RS485 links and/or wireless links.... (I never heard someone uses CAN for this one, but this could be a good selling point)For the professional versions, I saw some systems that are synchronized via music. I created a C# app last year integrated with Media player but was never implemented on a real world because the client changed his plans to use a ready-to-made system... but this was app was already working and I simulated it with PIC microcontroller via proteus. Maybe we can still use this...
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One idea also is to control the firework controller via their mobile phones (like using Java or Python for S60) through bluetooth to UART module (like LMX9838).
Or a touch screen + MCU on the master will be good as well...