Day 5 nothing
The first word I heard this morning was "nothing" from Calvin Harris' song, Feels, which was the top 1 song of the dance music chart of Apple Music.
The World with Numerous Invisible Sensors
Today's word was "Nothing." I suppose the world of no medium, in which every fuctions drive by invisibly installed numerous sensors. In that future world, there is no devices or physical triggers that user can handle directly, but countless sensors spread everywhere we go. Those sensors are planned and designed in details, so they can predict each users' behavior, patterns, even taste.
Initial Idea : Smart Studio with Optimized Lighting
Even if we are in one single space, we need different kind of light according to the patterns/usage. For instance, imagine we are living in the studio. We want a comfortable yellow light when we are in bed, and we want a bright white light when we are in desk focusing on work/study. I would like to create smart sensor light which offers optimized kind of lighting according to the user's location.
Research: Precedences
"Light Sentry" startup: article link
This startup company developed home lighting system which can be automatically turned on/off
and adjusted into different dim level according to the hours.
Image source: appleinsider.com
Procedure
I decided to make a miniature sensor light using Arduino. Including self study for Arduino led fade in/out exercise, I start to expand how I can materialize my idea.
References:
https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Fade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WslzsHDYuF0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1FVSpkw6q4
Code
Outcome
This smart light used Ultrasonic sensor so it could easily catch human existence, and its sensitivity also can be adjustable according to the distance between human and sensor. I set different codes to each light so that they could output light depending on the location of users.