Smart Environment SOS

For the Smart Environment Project, my group and I decided to built a Secure Overtaking System (SOS). This is a system that can be integrated into a car, which will then inform you constantly if it is safe to overtake the car in front of you or not. We have built a model, where one car (the red one) is overtaking a parked tractor while from the other side a white car is coming. We build the system in a way that there are two different variants, one where the overtaking car is safely overtaking the tractor, where our system has told the driver it is safe to overtake. The other version is where our system tells the driver that it is not safe to overtake but the car will overtake anyways and the two cars will crash. Our system works with distance sensors that realise how fast the other car (white one) is driving and will then be able to tell if it is enough space or not for an overtake. The advice of our system is represented by green and red lights, for safe and unsafe overtaking. In the real world the system could you satellites instead of distance sensors, so it would become more practical. And also did we only use a parking car for the one that is being overtaken, the reason for that is that we would have needed too much space and our model was already 2 m and 50 cm.

Smart Environment SOS

There is a video on my youtube channel to the right, which is a commercial about our product.

Mailbox

For the course of Programming and Physical Computing we had the assignment to create a system that is able to show you, in the real world, if you have received in email. My partner and I have builded a mailbox such as one that many people in america have, so if you receive an email, the white handle will go up and stay up until you read the mail(s). You can see a video of that on my youtube channel to the right.