Here’s an automatic parking gate for toy cars. There’s no need to press a button, the electronics detect the presence of a vehicle on either side of the gate, raising it after verifying that the lot is not already full. It’s the same idea as counting how many people enter a room in order to switch the lights but the hardware is just a bit different.
The system is controlled by a pair of sensors in the paper which serves as the parking lot. There are three sheets of heavy stock, the top and bottom both have aluminum foil on them, with the center layer as a separator. There are holes cut in the separator where the hash marks are seen above. By adding a little pressure to the car when you drive it up to the gate this completes a circuit instructing the Arduino that there’s a vehicle in position.
You can see a demonstration, as well as the guts of the build, in two videos after the break.
[via Reddit via Freetronics]
I suppose it makes me an asshole, but whats next, someone blinking an LED with an Arduino?
Just one step lower than the “ermargerd, don’t need an arduino for this, chalk and blackboard are enuf” crowd
I think this is a great thing to show kids (I didn’t say just boys) when they have their Matchbox garage.
Now add a license plate reader or RFID to each car…lol.
Given the price of RFID stuff these days, that’s actually feasible.
The model train nerds do that to ID rolling stock on their setups.
If you grab just the last byte from the code you can get enough codes to avoid clashes and make coding easier.
(Why is another story, and the answer of course is ‘why not?’)
Too bad you left out the bit that slashes your tires when you try and sneak in through the out gate! (You could’ve put in a little shocker if you really didn’t want a row of pins to slash your fingers)… Just saying…
i want to see one that prints out tiny parking billets.
It needs ten cars, and you’re not allowed to start work until each finger’s parked its car.
I think it’s pretty cool though I would have worked it differently. You could use a magnetic sensor as the cars are all metal and you could detect the eddy currents.
Or you could use an infrared laser and sensor.
My car all carbon fiber and aluminum chassis, causes lots of issues with street light sensors, they don’t sense I am there!
Yeah – it’s because they are passive sensors. If they were active it might well pickup the eddy currents in the aluminum frame.
Motorcycles have the same problem, not enough steel at times.
The loops work by measuring their inductance.
Then that’s clearly a nice advantage to being poor. Me in my ancient gas guzzling steel beast has no trouble turning those lights. :)
I lied, I drive a Taco.
I’m still poor though. :D
What happens when lot is full, and there are 5 cars behind you? This sounds like a design of a system, not a hack, just foolingmaroundnwithnarsuino.org
To make this realistic, you need to make one of the parking spaces so small that no car can fit in it. That way the last person has to drive around looking for a space when the garage says it’s not full.
This is actually very neat. I’d be entertained by this for like 3 weeks if I was a kid again. But just 3 weeks, it’s not THAT cool :P
I like how some of the cars had to make 3 point turns instead of just pulling impossible low speed drifts.
a small bit of refining and finishing, and I could see this as a marketable toy. maybe even a fancy lego set as an intro to the mindstorms series.
–or scale it up and manage your own parking lot somewhere.
i would like to see functional ground loops and safety logic which conforms to ASTM F2200-11b
Next step, simulate Steve Guttenberg’s parking lot scene from the first Police Academy movie. ;)
There was room for a 9th car at the extreme right of the carpark.
Im doing something like this with a keil board for a project, does the software code differ much as I have to write the code in Keil
You cant consider one slot less if a car enter on the parking, am I wrong?
Because, one car can just enter the park, let one person and leave. He’s not going to park anywhere.
You can count less one slot if he definitely park, using sensors on each slot.
which component is requied for this project ?
component list ?
Whinch components are required for this projects ? Please
https://arduining.com/2012/10/13/arduino-parking-lot-filled/
Can u provide me a coding and circuit diagram of this project of car parking