Hey,
I have been posting ALOT today, mostly to catch up on the 9 months where I failed to post anything. In between the robotics team, I have a few ideas planned out. Now I'm just planning them out.
Currently some of the ideas that I have are:
- night light
- AC thermostat
The night light and thermostat will have very similar frame if they are built. Essentially what will happen is that they will be half a dome, mostly made out of a translucent material such as etched acrylic (put that laser cutter to good use!). Input methods to the device would come in the form of twisting and pressing, using this we can power on, select modes, select brightness, a lot of combinations can be formed with these two input devices! The difference between the two will be in the guts. The night light will only have leds and a micro controller, most likely an Attiny 85, to give advanced lighting effects. The thermostat will be alot more complicated. I would like it to control my current AC, which means that I will have to reverse engineer the IR communication protocols, which is a very tedious process. Also, there will be a LCD screen on the top that would display information such as temperature.
If there are any readers at this point, please comment and choose either a night light or AC thermostat.
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