HOW TO MAKE ARDUINO TOLL TAX BARRIER

Jeevan December 3, 2020

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If you are searching for mini projects for engineering or if you are a student who is looking for Hobby project idea or best projects using Arduino

This can be easy and best Arduino project you can make on a budget, i.e Arduino toll tax barrier

HOW TO MAKE ARDUINO TOLL TAX BARRIER — Toll tax barrier using arduino

What is Toll Tax?

Some of the roads are managed by third party authorities, Hence if we want to travel through those roads which is well maintained or to compensate construction costs they charge us some money, so they stop us before entering the road and collect some money, since the number of vehicles passing through that road will be very high they need a form of a gate which is automated so that all the vehicle are stopped one after the other in a sequence.

Our version of Arduino toll tax barrier is made using some basic circuit in which we will be using ultrasonic sensor, micro servo, breadboard and few jumper wires

All codes are included here so anybody can make, this project can also be made in larger version and used as actual toll tax centers

So let’s begin making of this project in very detailed steps

Note: Video link is provided at the End

Principle of working in our Arduino toll tax barrier

Ultrasonic sensor is used to measure the distance between object

Here for demonstration I am using my hand

ultrasonic sensor is placed near the gate which will be raised/lowered when vehicle arrives

closed as vehicle departs Gate is attached directly to the shaft of micro Servo

whenever obstacle is detected by sensor, signals will be sent to Arduino board

Shaft of micro Servo lifts by 90°

we can also change the various parameters like the angle which should be raised by the micro servo also

At what distance ultrasonic sensor should start sending signal to the Arduino Nano or time of lifting and lowering barrier

Let’s start with the materials which is necessary to build this Arduino toll tax barrier,

Supplies for arduino toll tax barrier

Arduino Nano Get In INDIA / USA

Ultrasonic sensor Buy in USA / INDIA

Breadboard and jumper wires buy In INDIA / USA

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Circuit making

One of the main part in this project is building circuit,

Don’t worry if you are beginner I have explained all steps in detail also I have included circuit diagram for best understanding.

Circuit diagram with description

Micro servo connections

Micro Servo comes with three terminals, 2 for power supply and one will be for signal input, in my type of micro Servo there are yellow,red and brown wires.

Red for positive power supply brown for negative power supply and yellow for signal input.

From sensor vcc will be for positive power supply, Gnd will be for negative power supply

Trig and echo will be for transmitting and receiving echo signals

For controlling micro Servo rotation I am using , D9 pin from arduino Nano

To control the transmitting and receiving of ultrasonic sensor Signals i am using D2 and D3 pins

positive and negative power supply will go with + 5 volt and gnd board of Nano

To power this project, you can either use a USB power supply or rechargeable battery like I am using in this project.

NOTE: you can also eliminate use of breadboard and jumper wire by connecting the hardware components directly to the arduino nano board(soldering)

Once all circuitry is complete the project will look like in image below

Now we need to upload specific set of codes to board using Arduino IDE software

Don’t worry I have written the codes for you!

DOWNLOAD CODE FROM HERE!

Arduino code Download

Just copy and paste it to your Arduino IDE if you have any issues let me know in comments

If you don’t have the Arduino IDE installed you can download it for free! also you can download the application from Play Store if you are using phone/tablet. it’s free application

I will be using computer to upload code

If you don’t have computer, use your smartphone only you need OTG cable and Arduino IDE application.

Once the uploading of code is complete, test it out by giving power supply

when you bring Hand/small toy vehicle near ultrasonic sensor micro servo will start making some movements

The rotation of angle depends upon the values given in the code.

Making Pathway for toll tax machine

I am using piece of cardboard which looks like the letter T refer images above

To get the exact similar pattern of road i use black paint and few pieces of paper strips

All this shown in detail from image number 1-4

Now for the remaining part let’s make structure/frame which looks similar to the toll tax barrier

I will be using pieces of cardboard to make the outer frame you can also use MDF board,plastics or plexiglass instead of cardboard

You can draw and cut your own dimensions in the cardboard, just make sure all the cuttings are slightly larger than the size of the standard electrical components which we will be using