Railroad Crossing Gate
To start off this project we had to make a prototype of how it would basically work. It wasn't perfect at any acount, but we had time to figure out what works on this type of project and what would not.
This was the final version of what we used. we moved the motor to go vertical instead of horizontal. Be did this, because we noticed if it was the other way it would lose it's balance and fall over. While it would be put on just like that, we would need to remake the base to make it look nice.
You can see the full project we have done here. We tried to make the road as smooth as possible to not make it stop, so we would only push it.
As you can see we decided to make everything look better with all the wires under the track. Some improvements we made with this was connect the two lights together and the gates together to make them move. We did this to make less code for the machine to store.