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LED Road Test - Vehicle Situational Awareness System - Detecting the Borg in the Driveway - Blog 14 Dec 26

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This blog shows the Vehicle Situational Awareness System installed on a vehicle and operating both at night and in the daytime.

This picture shows the extra LED illumination panel plus the reversing-view video camera (to the left) and the ultrasonic distance sensor (to the right) all mounted on the rear bumper. It is just possible to see the rear view LCD display mounted on the dash. The other object (in the passenger seat) is a tripod, where the blog recording camera will be mounted.

Note - If you are going to be experimenting with prototype equipment on a car like this, it pays off to use a car that is already painted "duct tape gray", although "duct tape black" might be and even better option. The LED panel is actually quite flexible and could easily be bent to conform to the bumper contour, if a more permanent installation is to be designed.

This video shows operation in the daytime:

For these demonstrations the video camera is angled a bit high just to get more interesting objects in the video.

I found taking video of a low-cost LCD is a difficult challenge both in daylight and at night, especially at an angle.

Here is a demonstration of nighttime operation:

The video guidelines generated by the camera give some indication of distance, but the ultrasonic sensor provides much more definitive distance measurements.

This concludes my Vehicle Situational Awareness System blogs, unless questions arise that I can answer.

 

I think my next blog will be on reflow soldering of high power Würth LEDs.

 

The LED Road Test page is here:

http://www.element14.com/community/roadTests/1481

 

The Lighting Group page is here:

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Here are links to my other blog entries for this road test:

LED Road Test - Proposal - Blog 0 Jan 1, 2016

Light Emitting Diodes Road Test - Blog 1 Nov 1

LED Road Test - 3D Printed Housings - blog 2 Nov 10

LED Road Test - Dodecahedron Light Fixture  Blog 3 Nov12

LED Road Test - Wearable Interactive Lights - Blog 4 - Nov 13

LED Road Test - Interactive Trophy - Blog 5 Nov 16

LED Road Test - Making Household Objects Interactive - Blog 6 Nov 22

LED Road Test - Power LEDs - Up & Running - Blog 7 Nov 24

LED Road Test - Star Wars - The Force Awakens - Blog 8 Nov 28

LED Road Test - Selfie Phenomenon - Blog 9 Nov 29

LED Road Test - MSP EXP430FR4133 Launchpad IDE - Blog 10 Dec 6

LED Road Test - Vehicle Situational Awareness System Blog 11 Dec 14

LED Road Test - Vehicle Situational Awareness System Indoor Demo - Blog 12 Dec 20

LED Road Test - Maple Leaf Christmas Decoration - Blog 13 Dec 24

LED Road Test - Vehicle Situational Awareness System - Detecting the Borg in the Driveway - Blog 14 Dec 26

LED Road Test - Reflow Soldering Power LEDs - Blog 15 Jan 10

LED Road Test - Induction Heating Reflow Soldering - Blog 16 Jan12

LED Road Test - Summary - Blog 17 Jan 15

 

Associated Video Links

LED Road Test Unboxing

MSP-EXP430FR4133 Demo

BLE LED Power On Test

BLE LED 3D Printed Housings 2

Dodecahedron Light Fixture

Creating a Light Fixture using 123D Design

Wearable Interactive Arc Reactor

Interactive Trophy

Interactive Illuminated Household Objects

Power LEDs Thermal Discussion

LED Ring Light

Star Wars - Let The Force Be With The Light

CCS Cloud Basics

UltrasonicDistanceMeter-Boot

VSAS Indoor Demo

Maple Leaf BLE LED Decoration

Maple Leaf CAD design

Vehicle Situational Awareness System in Operation

Vehicle Situational Awareness System Operating at Night

Reflow Soldering SMT LEDs

Induction Heating Reflow Soldering

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