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Insomniac
03-27-08, 09:27 AM
Students in Virginia Tech mechanical engineering Professor Mehdi Ahmadian’s senior design class developed a horizontal light bar to communicate slowing and stopping actions to a driver in a following vehicle. It had several drawbacks, including cost of production. A sensor circuit that will do the same job using the extra lights usually mounted on commercial vehicles has now been developed.


Before I got my driver's license, I wanted a 1993 Honda Accord EX with a spoiler and the brake light LEDs that lit up from the middle to the edge. I thought it looked pretty cool. (I may or may not be making up the brake light thing. I swear I saw it once, but never really saw it again as far as I can recall.)

On a side note, I wish I could've done this project for my senior design project at WVU. :D

Sean O'Gorman
03-27-08, 09:51 AM
What was your senior design project, a house that is heated by flaming couches?

Insomniac
03-27-08, 10:25 AM
What was your senior design project, a house that is heated by flaming couches?

PC based Curve Tracer for semiconductors like diodes, transistors, FETs, etc.

eiregosod
03-27-08, 11:27 AM
PC based Curve Tracer for semiconductors like diodes, transistors, FETs, etc.

oh no!! beta!!

Insomniac
03-27-08, 03:27 PM
oh no!! beta!!

It calculated that too. ;)