Development of self-alignment equipment for a fence post installation

Leong, Zhan Hu (2021) Development of self-alignment equipment for a fence post installation. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

In recent years, construction industry is booming and experts expect growth to continue as there are many new type of professional tool are designed and used in their field. Levelling instrument, one of the tool that is frequently used by contractor while building poles, and installing plaster ceiling to keep those installations are aligned to horizontal or vertical plane. Therefore, the purpose of the project is to develop a self-alignment equipment for a fence post installation with advance feature. The objective of this project is to develop a fence post alignment tool by using microcontroller with dual gyroscope sensor and new method of selfalignment. This tool used a microchip of Atmega328P with DIP package as a main microcontroller of the system, MPU5060 accelerometer sensor to detect the pitch and roll of the fence post, piezo buzzer for sound alert, display screen, tact button, and a power supply. The advance features for this alignment tool is to used battery as a power supply for portable purpose, provide illusion of the actual value of the tilted angle, and come along with sound and light alert to give alert while planting the fence post. Therfore, the data is collected and analyzed in different aspect, which is the zero error of measured value, alert functionality based on angle value, and battery voltage level indicator based on zener diode voltage. The result represent high accuracy with 0.5 degree tolerance, able to produce alert functionality without error, and provide battery percentage level indicator. This product is designed to use in any application and it is user-friendly as introduced a better construction tool. Thus, it given the name Advance Digital Level, (ADL) and the prototype version first is ready.

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