We have reached a point were we are very close to a design freeze. Patrick has begun work on making a working prototype of the model, we found that he and I need to be working together quite frequently at this stage of construction as the electronics will be supplied by me. On that note I have finalised the inputs and outputs for the behavior of the bus stop. The two inputs are firstly: the buttons located on every stop along the route, so the user can select their destination and also a slider sensor for blind people, which I will explain in a few sentences.
The two outputs are the lines of LED’s along the bus route that show where the bus is in relation to the stop and also a vibrating motor which is activated by the slider sensor. Ideally the lines that represent the bus routes would all be slider sensors, so as you slide your finger along the route the motor will send a vibration through the whole bus stop informing a sight impaired person where the bus it along the route. But due to construction limitations we will place the slider sensor adjacent to the bus routes.
The next step, from a behavior point of view, is to communicate with Yasu regarding the electronics and the best way of approaching the coding.
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