Wakeye

lit up for night wakers

Made by Hanyue Hu

Think about this situation: when you wake up at dark night, with burred mind, you struggle to the button for the lights, and then your eyes are flashed by the sudden brightness. With WAKEYE, you don't need to care about that. Once your feet fall on to the rug by your bed, the lights of the room will lit up one by one towards the bathroom. With the help of light sensor, how many lights will lit up and how brightness the lights will be are depended on the ambient brightness of that time. That's to say, lights will not on at day time.

Created: January 27th, 2015

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Scenario description: Wakeye is designed for people who wake up at night and struggle for a light towards bathroom. The rug by the bed is embedded with a force sensor. When wakers' feet fall on the rug, the lights will lit up. And when people come back and their feet step on the rug again, the lights will fade off. The photoresistor will decide how many lights on and how much brightness they should be, according to the ambient brightness. For example, at 1 am, the room is very dark, the lights should be very bright, so three bulbs will lit up one by one, rather than all of them lit up suddenly.

Therefore, people will not worry about where is the buttons for the light when they wake up at night with blurred mind. And their eyes will not get hurt by the sudden brightness. This is a human centered design.

Material used:

● Spark Microcontroller

● Breadboard

● Jumper Wires

● Two 1kΩ Resistor

● Three single color LED (Light Emitting Diode)

● Three 10kΩ Resistor

● A photoresistor

● A forceresistor

 

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Think about this situation: when you wake up at dark night, with burred mind, you struggle to the button for the lights, and then your eyes are flashed by the sudden brightness.

With WAKEYE, you don't need to care about that. Once your feet fall on to the rug by your bed, the lights of the room will lit up one by one towards the bathroom. With the help of light sensor, how many lights will lit up and how brightness the lights will be are depended on the ambient brightness of that time. That's to say, lights will not on at day time.