Crosswalk Lab in ECE 301 using an Arduino Kit

A new addition to ECE 301 in EIL this summer was an assignment to build a prototype crosswalk emulator using an Arduino kit.  Most of the crosswalks in London do not have sound to alert pedestrians that the time window for cross the street is abruptly closing.  This lab assignment, designed by Ben Sergent (CompEng major) allowed the students in ECE 301 to get a real feel for electrical components and learn how microcontrollers generally work with digital circuitry. The functioning prototype shown below was completed by seven groups of three with each group finishing a stage of the project and handing off their progress to the next group. Each stage took  roughly two hours to complete (outside of the regular lab/problem solving session at IES).  The short video included was part of the demonstration of the crosswalk emulator to Prof. Parsons on Wednesday morning (June 26).  Click here to see the complete lab description of each of the seven stages and group assignments.