Introduction Our group’s project focuses on improving pedestrian crossing safety for the vulnerable populations. A traffic intersection prototype needs to be built for the setting. Therefore, in this tutorial, we will use simple electronic parts to set up a typical traffic intersection including traffic lights and pedestrian crossing signals. Parts List In order to accomplish this project, you will need: […]
Introduction In this tutorial, we will learn how to use the 1) Ultrasonic Sensor 2) Servo and 3) LCD Screen with the Arduino Board to prototype a toll-gate for vehicles. This system is part of a larger train system I am working on with my group mates Leo and Neil, who each has also written […]
Introduction Our group’s project, SmartLight, aims to detect the presence of pedestrians on crosswalks and notify drivers about the presence of pedestrians through customized LEDs around both vehicle traffic lights and crosswalk traffic lights. Hence, there are two things to consider at the very initial stage: 1) How to detect the presence of people? 2) […]
Hello World! We were challenged to identify a problem facing cities that might be addressed by using lost-cost sensors and re-imagining the way we interact with our environment. After many iterations, our team (Sutong Jiang, Yishi Liu, and Deon Provost) developed a prototype to increase safety for bikers by logging unsafe areas and rethinking how […]
The Problem: Handling trash overflow on streets is EXPENSIVE!!! Our project responds to one long-standing problem in Philadelphia, that is, handling trash overflow on streets, and keeping the streets clean usually cost a lot of money. Since 2009, the streets department has set up more than 1,000 Bigbelly trash compactors around center city, spending more […]
CONCEPT: IoTrash serves to equip the city with a tool for addressing one of the cities most prevalent urban problems: trash. Trash affects our cities. It can negatively impact public perception of an area, influence residents’ sense of pride and ownership of their neighborhood, and can create public health and safety concerns. Addressing trash is […]
Earlier this year, the City of Philadelphia released its Vision Zero Action Plan. This ambitious plan aims to reduce traffic deaths in Philadelphia to zero by 2030, and is the major motivation behind our design. The plan outlines four major goals: We believe that the Lit-Lane design and concept can be a powerful tool in […]
Hi there, we are Alana Kim, Nate Klass, and Esther Ng. Our project is called Illuminate, which is a smart lighting system for better place-making, expanding the usefulness of public spaces around the city by activating them after sundown. What is the issue? The problem as we see it, is two-fold. Dark parks lead […]
Team Members: Dave Buckler, Evan Cernea, and Chris Salzano For Professor Allison Lassiter’s class at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, we developed a prototype of a current sensor to help people better understand their household energy usage. The Problem Most people use electricity in their homes without any sense of how much energy […]
Adafruit has an awesome tutorial on properly wiring and testing your Fona808; you can find it (here). If you want a description of the chip components and required accessories, you can find that (here). This tutorial is based on wiring to an arduino, so make sure you look at the correct tutorial (i.e., not the […]