Pedestrians, drivers and workers alike are exposed to risks of being involved in dangers due to unforeseen circumstances. The idea is to provide an extra safety device on the road that will decrease the likelihood of accidents. Our original idea In order to build the device we used 2 LEDs, a breadboard, an Arduino Uno, an ultra-sonic sensor, two resistors, a buzzer, and Microsoft virtual shield.
In order to build it, we used several wires to connect the breadboard onto the Uno. We then hooked up the ultrasonic sensor and we used the serial monitor in order to display changes in distance. This will prompt the buzzer and LEDs to activate if reach a certain threshold. Later we hooked up a Microsoft smartphone and used the Windows 10 virtual shield feature for Azure Blob in order to connect to Microsoft azure and upload the info onto the cloud.
About 75% of the things we wanted to implement during the hackathon malfunctioned or had hardware issues. We wanted to use a Lilypad arduino and sew it into a safety vest as an indicator and use a a traffic as motion sensor that would go off when it sensed a car coming toward it at dangerous speed. It would also send info to the cloud through a particle photon for legal purposes. We had to improvise because the processor for the lilypad was malfunctioning and the WiFi for the Esports arena had a lot of downtime.
I was very fascinated by a lot of the stuff I learned about electrical engineering and it was very satisfying getting the arduiono working.
We hope our idea can be a template for road safety devices and save lives.
Built With
- arduino
- microsoft-windows-10-for-arduino
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