Arduino Garage Parking Sensor
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- This is my implementation of a parking sensor I saw here:
• How to make an Arduino...
It's the same idea with the same basic parts, I've just made a few tweaks and made it a permanent fixture in my garage. The plastic parts were designed in fusion 360 and cut from 2.5mm acrylic on my K40 laser and superglued together.
Link to the thingiverse page:
www.thingivers...
These are the parts:
Button: www.amazon.com...
LED ring: www.amazon.com...
Nano: www.amazon.com...
Ultrasonic Sensor: www.amazon.com...
Lamp socket adapter: www.amazon.com...
The low voltage electrical box and decora faceplates I had from a previous project.
This is the nicest garage parking sensor project I’ve seen to date. Well done! 👍🏻
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I like it! But do you think the strip led would be a better visual?
Any kind of led indicator would work. It could even just be a stoplight sort of thing with a green/yellow/red arrangement. I liked the way these ring leds looked so that's the route I took.
Certainly there would be easier ways to fit a smaller indicator in the electrical box and faceplate.
@@ReiniGrauer thanks for the reply Reini, I do like your 5v jumper from the light lol. We have the same issue, longer vehicle now in the garage🤔 I might just copy yours minus the fancy printed parts☹️ no 3d printer here. I will say you have knocked it out of the park with the adjustable sensor reset which I have not seen on any other video yet. That option just opens up a world of adjustment without having to reprogram the unit each time. We automator house with using nodeMCU and home assistant but I'm thinking this will be good as just a stand-alone device and I do have an Arduino Uno sitting around not doing anything so be a perfect project. Quick question how do you made any updates to your code then what's uploaded?
@@ReiniGrauer OK so the ring light is OUT Way too much $$$ ( im canadian and to get one here is crazy ) BUT i do have 5050 LED strip light sitting doing nothing. so thats what it will be built on. few questions for you, Discord? discord.gg/GD7fJv8
Nice job. For sharing
any chance you would be able to help to see if this can be done with a stip led style rather than the neopixel? thanks in advance
Go to Arduino Projects and search for Garage Parking Assistant by Bcjams
Great idea,,, simply,,, cheap,,used in daily routine, I like it 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Hi, nice project, can you share wiring diagram ? Regards
Very cool. Is that a smart bulb in the garage door motor?
Do you have a wiring diagram for this?
Good job mate 👍
OK i have it up and fired it up, but is there a limit to the number of leds that this can sync with, Im using a Strip led and testing went well with the 24 led count, but i bumped it to the 71 count and now nothing works. humm any sugestions?
Mind sharing the code? You just bumped the number of pixels up to 71 and it doesn't work?
I had an issue where when the ring was at full brightness, the more pixels I used and the more colors I used, the power draw would cause weird stuff to happen to the little ultrasonic sensor and the whole thing would bug out. That's why I'm only using red/green/blue colors and have the brightness turned all the way down. I think the neopixel stuff is designed to run off a battery because of the high current draw, and you're supposed to wire it up with a capacitor or something, which I didn't do.
You can try reducing the number of pixels and see if the behavior improves. Otherwise I think you might need to increase the size of the power supply driving it. I was using standard 5v-1A phone chargers to run it, and the voltage drop was enough with 24 pixels to cause problems unless the brightness was turned down to like 15%.
@@ReiniGrauer Thanks for the reply, i got another one to run Stable with readings and such but i like yours with the button, this is my test th-cam.com/video/hqnj336Z5pA/w-d-xo.html if you want to jump to discord we have a section open fro you discord.gg/5x35q8a
Reini, love your implementation of the parking sensor. A few questions for you. Would you mind sharing the code you created for the button for learning the new distance? Also, have you had the chance to create enclosure designs for 3d printer. I wanted to replicate your design and see if you had any more information to go on with. Thank you for sharing this.
I made something similar, I made a Chevy emblem enclosure and used actual LED. I’ve been using it for about 2 years now and it works perfect every time.
How visible are the lights in the day time?
They are very bright. And since you are looking at the leds from straight on, it's still very bright, even with the brightness turned way down. To give you an idea, I've got the brightness setting at 10 of 255 on the FastLED API.
My garage uses 6 70w LED stick lights so it's almost as bright as daylight in the garage with the lights on, so the LED ring is plenty bright as it sits.
That's definitely bright enough. ;-)
Hi I have downloaded your code for version 4 from thingiverse but I am new to this and you have a button in your design (#define BUTTON_PIN 5 #define BUTTON_SINK_PIN 6) so do I put one end of the button on pin 5 and the other end on pin 6 sorry if this sounds stupid but this is my first try at Arduino. Thanks
Connect the button across it. It might be named incorrectly, it might actually be a source pin technically. Basically the button has to be pulled up for the pin on the arduino to detect voltage when it's pushed.
@@ReiniGrauer Ok thank you
Thanks for this video. I have it working like I want it and now just need to figure out how best to mount it in my garage. I have a friend with a 3D printer who can print for me. I see the .ai file in the Thingiverse link you provide, but neither I nor my friend are sure what program to open it in. What software should I use to open that? Thanks!
That file is for a laser cutter. At some point I should probably design an enclosure for 3d printing and put it on thingiverse. I'll spend a little time on it when I get a chance.
Thanks@@ReiniGrauer! Are you willing/able to create an enclosure for me? How much would you charge for your time and materials?
@@LordPandemic if I design an enclosure I'll put it on thingiverse and your friend could print it out
Reini Grauer that works for me! Thanks!
Example Code?
The code is in the thingiverse link. One of the thing files is the arduino .ino project. Im not sure if thats the latest code for it in there but it works.
@@ReiniGrauer The code did not work for me. The button seems to function correctly but the led's just stay green. I checked the print log and it seems like the sensor is not reading. Although, when I run a different code to test the sensor, the sensor works. Can you give any insight? Love the project!
you need sensors to park inside your garage lol so how do you drive around when you're out there in the real world with crazy drivers around you
Spoken like someone who doesn't own a garage. I don't care how good you think you are at driving, you'll never be able to park within an inch of the exact spot in your garage every time.
Reini Grauer - We can see that Brandon didn’t pay attention in Grammar Class. I’d imagine it was the same for Drivers Ed. 🤣
Damn you thought of everything with this one.
You need a 3d printer
That's beautiful.