Garage Door… OPEN!

This whole semester we’ve been working on a project where we had to build a transmitter and receiver for a remote control garage door. This last week has been hectic but towards the end of the week was the business end of the course where we had to give a demonstration to show that it works. There’s actually a lot of technical detail behind the project but I won’t go into it too much.

This week I’ve spent two nights at uni in the labs until 9 and 10pm trying to get the system working and we’ve had a few hiccups along the way. But the bottom line is that we managed to get things working to at the end. Here are some photos from the testing stages:

When we had to give a demonstration of our project, we managed to receive our digital signal at the receiver over a metre away. It was a little disappointing that they didn’t actually have the model garage door for us to physically open so we just had to read our signal off the LED lights.