Lego Elevator Project
Duration: March - April, 2009
Members: Rafat Rashid, Ehsan Nasiri
Course: Computer Organization, ECE243, UofT
About the Project
- Built an elevator and a 3 floor elevator shaft using LEGO and utilized NIOS II and assembly language to make the elevator move from one floor to another.
- Used LEGO sensors that detects colour to prevent the elevator from hitting the top and bottom of the shaft.
- Used a timer built into the DE2 board, Lego Controller and bidirectional motors to control the movement of the elevator.
- Used the VGA to display the movement of the elevator on the computer monitor.
- Used the LCD screen to display the current floor and other relevant status information.
