Team Accident Awareness is a mechanical design lab team that will utilize a sensor to detect approaching vehicles from the rear end of a car. The sensor will run using arduino and a message will be displayed by an LED display telling the tailgater to "Slow Down" or "Back Off".
The team members consist of Jeffrey Cheng, Kristofer Tite, Samuel Kibirige, Eric Carey from left to right
Day 1: The team met to discuss the electronics portions of the projects. The team discussed potentially building an FM transmitter from scratch. The video below served as inspiration and the team would build it using the same parts.
The parts needed for the sensor are as follows: 18AWG solid Copper Wire, 1/4-20 bolt, copper-clad board, liquid adhesive, two 0.01 micro-farad ceramic disk capacitor, 25K ohm resistor, electrolytic capacitor, 10k ohm resistor, transistor, two 10 pico-farad ceramic disk capacitors, 470 ohm resistor, battery and appropriate tools.
Other topics discussed were the code and housing, A solidworks render of a portion of the housing is displayed below. The housing would be created from a clear plastic like Plexiglass.
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