Category: Final Project

For my final project I created an interactive dining table that senses when dishes and plates are put on top and lights up. I wanted to make something that speaks to me and my wants as a busy person who doesn’t always take time for myself. There should also be an IOT component that also posts a message to your slack group telling them that you are taking time for yourself. It uses the force sensor and neopixel strips.

Here is the link to the instructables: https://www.instructables.com/id/Prism-Personal-Dining-Table/

The biggest challenge was working with my board and neopixels and not understanding what was going wrong and why I was shorting my boards. It wasn’t until I changed neopixels that I realized there was something wrong with my neopixels.

For my final project, I created wearable bluetooth enabled headphones that lets you communicate through color and led animations. Whether it’s to let someone know you’re busy or flirt with someone without using words.

The earbud component is 3D printed and attached to pre-existing bluetooth headphones. Using an Adafruit Feather nRF52 BLE micro controller with the Adafruit Bluefruit LE App, colors and animations for the LEDs can be changed using pre-programmed buttons and a color picker.

Here’s the instructables link for how to make your own!

https://www.instructables.com/id/ColorTalk-Earphones

Some in progress photos:

For my final project, I created a Pomodoro lamp, Lucee. You can turn on the light by creating a task on your IOS reminder app. The light is turned on for 40 minutes for you to focus and it turns itself off for the 10 minutes of break time. Once you complete the task, and by hitting the complete button on the app, the light would also turn off.

The biggest challenge was working with the servo motor. My original intent to move the light bulb up and down was challenged. I may have to work with a lever or gear chain system to support and trigger the motor.

I enjoyed working with Arduino and the internet of things. I learned how to use the Power Relay and connecting it to AC circuit.

For the next step, I would like to dig into the mechanical engineering of the movement and play with the idea of dimming of the light as the time goes on.

Here‘s the link to my instructable.

Hi all, hopefully most of you are already in bed by now!

Say hello to Dish Buddy:

Dirty dish buddy is a simple sink grid sitting on top of a push button. This is connected to a WiFi-enabled Arduino hidden within a modest enclosure. When someone places a dish on the sink grid, this presses the button. If the dish stays there for more than 5 minutes, whoever is looking after the sink will get an email alert. Once they see this email, they can track down the culprit before too many dishes pile up.

Here is my video:

And how’s about a link to the instructable.

And my thoughts on the project:

As far as the Arduino aspect, learning about the WiFi capabilities and seeing it work without the aid of a computer was a magical moment. Additionally, I learned how to use a variable to track when the program is in different “states” enabling multiple processes to run in tandem and be intentionally affected when specific events trigger a state change. Also using the Sugru to waterproof the button was a handy tip.

With the video, I learned a lot about how a good, thorough storyboard can streamline the whole video shooting process, making it much more enjoyable when you know everything you have to do from the start. And it makes it much easier in general because you can edit many unnecessary shots before recording a second of footage. Additionally, I was able to experiment hands-on for the first time with high quality video lighting which made a huge difference.

Jumping off questions:

Is this too invasive of a solution?

Would anyone actually be willing to track down a dirty dish culprit if they got an email about it?

Does it increase or diminish feelings of respect in a shared environment?