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Parking Radar Sensor

Use three HC-SR04 ultrasound sensors and two battery displays to show you how close the obstacles are and from which side.

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Things used in this project

Hardware components

Arduino UNO
Arduino UNO
×1
Ultrasonic Sensor - HC-SR04 (Generic)
Ultrasonic Sensor - HC-SR04 (Generic)
×1
Mini Battery Displays
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Schematics

Parking Sensor v1

Code

Parking_sensor_v1.ino

Arduino
/* This code is meant to work with HC-SR04 ultrasound modules x3 and TM1651 battery display x2
 * The project is a parking sensor that shows you how close the obstacles are and from which is
 * depending on the Maxdistance that above it the display will show as safe distance
 * below that it start changing
 * Refer to www.SurtrTech.com for more details
 */
#include <TM1651.h>

#define CLK 3      //Right display wiring
#define DIO 2

#define CLK2 5     //Left display wiring
#define DIO2 4

#define trigPin 6        //Ultrasound modules wiring R=Right L=Left the other one is the middle
#define echoPin 7
#define trigPinR 8
#define echoPinR 9
#define trigPinL 10
#define echoPinL 11
#define Maxdistance 20  //Maximum distance 20cm

long duration; 
int distance;

TM1651 DisplayR(CLK,DIO);      //Display instances
TM1651 DisplayL(CLK2,DIO2);

void setup() {
     pinMode(trigPin, OUTPUT);       //Pinmodes of the HC-SR04 and starting the displays
     pinMode(echoPin, INPUT);
     pinMode(trigPinR, OUTPUT);
     pinMode(echoPinR, INPUT); 
     pinMode(trigPinL, OUTPUT);
     pinMode(echoPinL, INPUT); 
     DisplayR.init();
     DisplayR.set(BRIGHTEST);
     DisplayL.init();
     DisplayL.set(BRIGHTEST);
}

void loop() {

    int distanceM = CDistance(trigPin,echoPin);      //Calculating all the distances by calling the function below
    int distanceR = CDistance(trigPinR,echoPinR);
    int distanceL = CDistance(trigPinL,echoPinL);

    int R=min(distanceM,distanceR);                //We have two displays R and L, first we take the minimum distance between M/R and M/L
    int L=min(distanceM,distanceL);

    if(R>0 && R < Maxdistance){                   //Range of distance
      short LevelR=map(R,0,Maxdistance,0,7);      //Scaling the disntace from 0-20 to 0-7
      DisplayR.displayLevel(LevelR);              // 0-7 are the levels of the display each distance between 0-20cm has a specified level you can change that 20
    }
    if(R> Maxdistance)                           //We're safe and the displays always shows there's enough space
    DisplayR.displayLevel(7);

    if(L>0 && L < Maxdistance){                 //Same as Right
      short LevelL=map(L,0,Maxdistance,0,7);
      DisplayL.displayLevel(LevelL);
    }
    if(L> Maxdistance)
    DisplayL.displayLevel(7);
    

     delay(50);
}

int CDistance(int a, int b){             //Calculating distance function, it takes two arguments (Trigger and Echo) and it executes the usual process of the HC-SR04
     digitalWrite(a, LOW); 
     delayMicroseconds(2);       
     digitalWrite(a, HIGH);
     delayMicroseconds(10);      
     digitalWrite(a, LOW); 
     duration = pulseIn(b, HIGH); 
     distance = duration*(0.034/2); 
     return distance;                  //Return the distance calculated
}

TM1651 Battery display library

The library makes the job so much easy

Credits

SurtrTech

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