Project:Mini Traffic Lights

Mini Traffic Lights
Created	19/03/2012
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Mini Traffic Lights - Asc

Some computer controlled traffic lights! Inspired by TomW's TrafficLights

Controllable via serial port commands, no drivers, no shenanigans. If your script/program can access the serial port it can blink blink the lights.

Requirements

Small
Cheap
Easy to build
Looks good
Can be easily interfaced with a computer so that the computer can control it via pretty much any programming or scripting language.

Equipment

Minimus
Laser cut case
3mm MDF / acrylic
2 x 12mm M3
2 x M3 nut
Wire
8mm kite Tube
6 x 5mm leds (2 x red, 2 x orange, 2 x green)
6 x 5mm led bezels
6 x 330 Ohm resisters
Superglue

Microcontroller Code

Example Computer Code

Linux uDev Non-root User Magic

Operating System Specific

Linux:
Firstly make sure minicom is installed.  "sudo apt-get install minicom" or "sudo yum install minicom"
ls -latr /dev/|grep -i tty  (it will typically be dev/ttyACM*) 
vim ~/.minirc.dfl
 pu port             /dev/ttyACM0
 pu baudrate         38400
 pu minit
 pu mreset
This will setup minicom with the correct settings.  Change /dev/ttyACM0 to whatever was discovered in dmesg.
minicom

OSX:
ls -latr /dev/|grep -i tty  (it will typically be dev/ttys0.usbmodem*) 
screen /dev/ttys0.usbmodem1234 38400   (by default it sets 8N1)
to exit the terminal: Ctrl-A Ctrl-K Y <enter>

Windows:
The easiest way is to use putty and connect to the specific comport which can be discovered in Device Manager.  Have it set to 38400 8N1

Files

Windows Drivers MCU binary flash

Gallery

Prototype v1 Made from MDF