The Cooking Pot
a way to warn about boiling water and open lids
Made by Pedro Mendes
Imagine a cooking pot that can warn the user, from a distance and with the use of visual cues, if the water inside it (to cook pasta, for instance) is boiling, by getting data from a temperature sensor, and blinking a green LED if temperature was above 212F. Also, it would blink a red LED if the lid was improperly closed, since it requires more energy to boil water with an open lid and there's a danger in handling the pot with an unsecured lid. The way to do this would be by using a photosensitive sensor to detect any openings through which light would penetrate around the connection between pot and lid.
Created: January 27th, 2015
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Imagine a cooking pot that can warn the user, from a distance and with the use of visual cues, if the water inside it (to cook pasta, for instance) is boiling, by getting data from a temperature sensor, and blinking a green LED if temperature was above 212F.
Also, it would blink a red LED if the lid was improperly closed, since it requires more energy to boil water with an open lid and there's a danger in handling the pot with an unsecured lid. The way to do this would be by using a photosensitive sensor to detect any openings through which light would penetrate around the connection between pot and lid.