Tells red from yellow, out loud
Blinding Lights
A dashboard module that watches for blinking stoplights and tells a color-blind driver out loud which one it is: "red - stop" or "yellow - caution".
LOG · WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT DOES
A blinking red light means stop and a blinking yellow one means caution, but to someone who is red-green color blind the two can look alike. Blinding Lights is an independent module that attaches to the dashboard: an OpenMV camera board detects stoplights and whether they're red or yellow, and tells the driver "red - stop" or "yellow - caution".
WHY
One of my friends mentioned her brother is red-green color blind, and has trouble telling blinking red lights from blinking yellow ones.
WHAT I WORKED ON
The software, on the OpenMV camera board, and the casing.
WHAT CAME OF IT
It works, and was tested on a makeshift stoplight. I presented it to a group of people and engineers at Rev.
- OBJECT
- M41
- YEAR
- 2026
- CONTEXT
- Hobby
- CATEGORY
- fun
- TYPE
- hardware + software
- STATE
- working
- TOPICS
PLATES · 1
PLATE IThe demo: a makeshift stoplight, red, then yellow
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