S13: Garage Parking Aid
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Garage Parking Aid
Abstract
The purpose of this project is to aid when parking a car. This device will send to an Android phone the distance between the car and an obstacle.
Objectives & Introduction
The purpose of this project is to build a parking aid that will measure the distance between an object and a car and send the data to the user's Android phone. An ultrasonic transmitter/receiver is used to measure the distance and bluetooth is used to send data to the Andoid phone.
Objectives:
- Measure distance and display on computer screen
- Send data over bluetooth
Team Members & Responsibilities
- Elizabeth
- Create UART2 driver
- Wire peripherals
- Send messages with Bluetooth
- Tian
- Create Android app
- Assemble project into a box
- Configure ultrasonic distance meter
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Parts List & Cost
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| SJ One Board | $65 |
| Bluetooth | $0 |
| 2.4 GHz Antenna | $5 |
| Ultrasonic transmitter and receiver | $10 |
| Blackbox | $0 |
| Wire | $10 |
| Batteries | $7 |
| Total: | $97 |
Design & Implementation
Hardware Design
The following hardware components are all that we used for this project. The LPC1758 Processor on the SJSU_ONE Development Board, which is powered by the battery pack, controls everything through the board. It activates the ultrasonic module, gets the time reading from it, computes the readings into distance and then transfer the data to bluetooth module, then the bluetooth module will send the received data to the Android Application on a paired bluetooth Android Device through the 2.4Ghz Antenna.
Hardware Interface
Hardware Communication: The development board is connected to the bluetooth chip and ultrasonic receiver/transmitter. The bluetooth receives data through the pins and transmits the data over bluetooth. The ultrasonic receives a trigger signal through the pins then sends an ultrasonic pulse. When the echo is read back it will send an echo pulse back to the board. The battery gives 5V power to development board and ultrasonic.
The Bluetooth device is connected to UART1 and the ultrasonic device is connected to GPIO. To communicate with the Bluetooth, the program sends data to UART1 and then is sent to bluetooth. To comunicate with the ultrasonic, the program sends and receives data from the board's pins P1.19 and P1.20.
Another option to capture the time of the ultrasonic's pulse is to program the GPIO pins to be PWM and capture. The PWM pin will output a pulse to the ultrasonic and the ultrasonic will send an ultrasonic pulse. When it receives an echo of the pulse it will send a pulse to the caputure pin. When the capture pin receives a change in voltage, it will store the time into a designated register.
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Wifi Connection Issues
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References
Acknowledgement
- Preet Kang
- Dr. Haluk Ozemek
References Used
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- https://www.sparkfun.com/products/158
- http://www.micropik.com/PDF/HCSR04.pdf
- https://s3-ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com/sain-amzn/20/20-019-100/HC-SR04.rar
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