Droplet - Werkzeug für High-Speed Fotografie

Droplet is a Open Source Project for the microcontroller-based High-Speed-Photography with special attention to Waterdrop Photography and Liquid Art.

Droplet is a one-man job and 100% free. I started this project in January 2012 and it’s now very well-known and used by many people all around the world. I spend very much time on development and appreciate every donation.

Downloads

Download Droplet
0.1.3 for Windows

Download Droplet
0.1.3 for Mac OS X

Download Droplet
0.1.3 for Linux

Features

• Configuration of an unlimited (*) amount of devices (valves, flashes, cameras)
• Configuration of an unlimited (*) amount of actions per device
• Input of times in milliseconds
• Saving and loading of configurations
• Automatic creation of XMP Metadata Files
• English and german UI
• Platform independent: available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
• Open Source: the Source Code is free available and is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0
• Easy changing and expanding of the used microcontroller.
  (Version 0.1 supports just Arduino)
• Easy changing of the communication protocol that is used to communicate with the microcontroller.
  (Version 0.1 contains a Droplet Arduino-Sketch. Additionally Nicolai Korff’s crazyMachine is supported)

(*) technical limit defined by the used microcontroller

Know Problems and Bugs

Known memory issue with Arduino 1.0.3

If you have any memory related problems with the droplet sketch (i.e. wrong device setups on the arduino, frozen board, …) try to use Arduino 1.0.1 instead.

Droplet cannot connect to the appropriate device

• Make sure not to run the Arduino software and Droplet at the same time
• Mac OS X: Make sure that the folder /var/lock exists with file permissions set to 777
  • Open a Terminal window
    (Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal or search for it)
  • sudo mkdir /var/lock
  • sudo chmod 777 /var/lock

Problem executing Droplet under Mac OS X starting with version 10.7.5:

Gatekeeper prevents the execution of unsigned applications. To resolve this problem, you need to deactivate Gatekeeper before the first start of Droplet. Afterwards Gatekeeper can be reactivated again.

• System Preferences -> Security & Privacy
• Set Allow Apps Downloaded from to Anywhere
• Start Droplet
• Set Allow Apps Downloaded from to the original value

Release Notes and Previous Releases

Version	Changes	Downloads
0.1.2 / 2014-02-11	[FEATURE] Selected communication port is saved on exit
0.1.1	[BUGFIX] Fixed major bug with execution of multiple rounds in arduino sketch
0.1	Initial Release