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We all know about Arduino. It is one of the most popular open source micro controller
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board which is highly useful for doing DIY projects. This Arduino based 3-Way Traffic
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Components Required: interfaces

1. 3*Red LED Lights

2. 3*Green LED Lights
3. 3*Yellow LED Lights
4. 3*220ohm Resistors
5. Breadboard
6. Male To Male Connectors
7. Arduino Uno With Ide Cable

Circuit Explanation:
The circuit Diagram for Arduino Traffic Light Controller project is given below:
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In the program, first we have declared pins (2,3…10) as output in void setup() for 9 LEDs domain-zone-
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(three on each side i.e. forward, right and left side).

   void setup() { 
  // configure the output pins 
  pinMode(2,OUTPUT); 
  pinMode(3,OUTPUT); 
  pinMode(4,OUTPUT); 
  pinMode(5,OUTPUT); 
  pinMode(6,OUTPUT); 
  pinMode(7,OUTPUT); 
  pinMode(8,OUTPUT); 
  pinMode(9,OUTPUT); 
  pinMode(10,OUTPUT); 
}

Then in void loop() function we have written the code for traffic lights to be turned on and
off in sequence as mentioned above.

void loop()  
{ 

  digitalWrite(2,1); //enables the 1st set of signals 
  digitalWrite(7,1); 
  digitalWrite(10,1); 
  digitalWrite(4,0); 
  digitalWrite(3,0);   
  digitalWrite(6,0); 
  digitalWrite(8,0); 
  digitalWrite(9,0); 
  digitalWrite(5,0); 
  delay(5000); 
  ..... .... 
  ..... ....

This process is well demonstrated in the Video Below. First the upside/forward side is
opened (green), while the other two sides (i.e. left side and right side) remains closed with
Red signal, with a delay of 5 seconds. Then the yellow light gets turned on at the right side
for 1sec followed by the Green light, leaving other two sides (i.e. upside and left side is
•red) closed with Red Light and 5seconds delay. Then yellow on the left side glows for

1sec followed by green one, leaving upside and right side Red with 5sec delay. This
process is looped in void loop() function for continuous process. Here we can modify
delays for which the Red, yellow and Green light remain on and off.

The complete Arduino code and Video for this Arduino Traffic Light Project is given
below.

Code
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   void setup() {

  // configure the output pins

  pinMode(2,OUTPUT);

  pinMode(3,OUTPUT);

  pinMode(4,OUTPUT);

  pinMode(5,OUTPUT);

  pinMode(6,OUTPUT);

  pinMode(7,OUTPUT);

  pinMode(8,OUTPUT);

  pinMode(9,OUTPUT);

  pinMode(10,OUTPUT);

void loop() 

  digitalWrite(2,1); //enables the 1st set of signals

  digitalWrite(7,1);

  digitalWrite(10,1);

  digitalWrite(4,0);

  digitalWrite(3,0);  

  digitalWrite(6,0);

  digitalWrite(8,0);

  digitalWrite(9,0);

  digitalWrite(5,0);

  delay(5000);

  digitalWrite(3,1); //enables the yellow lights

  digitalWrite(6,1);

  digitalWrite(2,0); 

  digitalWrite(7,0);

  delay(1000);

  digitalWrite(4,1); //enables the 2nd set of signals

  digitalWrite(5,1);

  digitalWrite(10,1);

  digitalWrite(2,0);

  digitalWrite(3,0);  

  digitalWrite(6,0);

  digitalWrite(8,0);

  digitalWrite(9,0);

  digitalWrite(7,0);

  delay(5000);

  digitalWrite(9,1); //enables the yellow lights

  digitalWrite(6,1);
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•  digitalWrite(10,0); 

  digitalWrite(5,0);  

  digitalWrite(4,0);

  delay(1000); 

  digitalWrite(8,1); //enables the 3rd set of signals

  digitalWrite(4,1);

  digitalWrite(7,1);

  digitalWrite(2,0);

  digitalWrite(3,0);  

  digitalWrite(5,0);

  digitalWrite(6,0);

  digitalWrite(9,0);

  digitalWrite(10,0);

  delay(5000);

  digitalWrite(9,1); //enables the yellow lights

  digitalWrite(3,1); 

  digitalWrite(7,0);

  digitalWrite(8,0); 

  digitalWrite(4,0);

  delay(1000);   

} 

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Jen
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I have an HCS12 microcontroller. Can I use my board to make this? How

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HCS12 is very different from Arduino the

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whole code has to be changed

sakthi
Feb 25, 2018

i have nucleoF030R8 embedded.can I apply this idea on it?

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Hey can I interface lcd with traffic light controller using arduino(without
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using I2C lcd module) so that I can display the comments.Stop-when red
leds are on,Go- when green leds are on,Ready-when orange leds are
on(this things should be displayed simultaneously on the lcd).I tried this
experiment but the pins are not enough to connect the lcd pins as 9 leds
has occupied from 3 to 10 digital pins.If I connect the lcd pins to analog
pins it's not working.
So my question is can I connect the lcd pins to to analog pins on the
arduino board to display the comments as I mentioned above?
If it's not possible ,then how can I connect lcd pins to arduino?
Plz reply me a.s.a.p

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Yes you can use the analog pins on arduino

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Malay Mohapatra
Mar 21, 2018

Can we make the program quite short by using the Ports in program ?
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