Automatic Bicycle Lights

Team Garfield: Joseph Karam, Evan Markwell, Jazmin Cartagena This project was designed to provide bikers with an extra level of safety on the roads, especially at night. We included a tail light as well as turn signals on the front and back of the bike, so that the biker could be seen from all directions. The project was powered by an Arduino microprocessor and by a 12 volt battery (8 AA batteries). Hall effect sensors with magnets were used for determining the bike’s speed as well as its turn configuration. There were many challenges that we encountered in this project. First of all, we fried multiple Arduino boards, and we had to scramble to get new ones for the project. Second, the code ended up being more complicated than expected due to the use of external interrupts as well as timer/counters. Overall, the project ended up being more time consuming than expected, but we were able to finish it on time, and present it in working order.

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Artifacts

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Project Overview Video A video summarizing our project and its functionalities.   Link
Executive Summary A document summarizing our project, including any difficulties we faced along the way.   Download