Over the last week, I've been re-building my old water-drop project but replacing the Arduino with an ESP8266 device. It's better than the Arduino as it has a much smaller form factor and has inbuilt wifi which allows me to use Blynk as the interface (see below the images) without having to hook the device up to a computer or laptop. I've got it all running off a 12-volt transformer plug which means it has the potential to be totally portable. My next task on the hardware side of things is to make a fully soldered version in a project box. I might even make a user interface online that allows people to play with the drips through a browser. Anyway, here are the photos that I grabbed today. The consistency of the collisions is almost 100% which is frankly amazing for a DIY build.
The liquid in these images is water mixed with xanthan gum as a thickening agent, milk for opacity and food colouring. Hope you like them.
And here is a shot of the user interface that I use in Blynk. I did a post a long time ago on how i built this, but might do an updated one soon.
Thanks
Mark
Such cool shots.
You get some pretty amazing creative shots from your system. The orange with blueish corona drop looks spectacular.
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