Hands-on, Minds-on

It’s so ordinary and boring to just have a normal Desk Lamp to just turn it on and off by a switch! What if it was smarter and senses your presence! To just sit on your desk and Voila! The lamp turns ON, and once you move away, it turns OFF. This is your chance to try and build your first Smart Desk Lamp!

This smart Desk lamp works in Two Modes: Manual Mode and Automatic Mode:

• The Manual mode means that you manually control the Desk lamp using a regular ON/OFF Switch.

• The Automatic mode means that the Desk lamp is automatically controlled: If the IR sensor is sensing the presence of a person near the lamp, it keeps the lamp ON. If the IR sensor is not sensing  the presence of a person in the room, it turns the Desk lamp OFF.

Type: Individual Activity

Tools & Materials:

• 1 Arduino UNO

• 1 LED (Represents the Desk Lamp)

• 2 Slide switches (1 switch represents the Mode selector and 1 switch represents the Desk Lamp's ON/OFF Switch)

• 1 IR Sensor module

• 1 DC adaptor

• 1 Breadboard

Description

• We will be making this activity using Divide and Conquer Technique!

  1. Manual Mode:

     • Build the manual mode circuit using a slide switch and LED (View Circuit Wiring)

[Hint: use a 3 pin slide switch]

• 1. • Build your code to control the LED using the switch ON/OFF (Use Block Code on Tinkercad)

  2. Automatic Mode:

     • Build the Automatic mode circuit using IR sensor and LED (View Circuit Wiring)

[Hint: you can replace IR sensor inside Tinkercad with PIR sensor as Tinkercad doesn’t have IR sensor]

• 2. • Build your code to control the LED using the IR sensor

  3. Adding selector and merging 2 codes together:

     • Add a slide switch (3 pin) to your circuit to choose between the two modes (View Circuit Wiring)

     • Build your code so that the slide switch (selector) chooses between manual and automatic modes

Reflect & Share

• How did you write the code to control your smart lamp solution? Please explain in detail.

• Did it work as it was supposed to? Why?

• What challenges did you face while writing and testing your code?

Midweek Self-Practice 

Follow the video tutorials below (in order) to learn how to program an Arduino UNO to control input components and action components using Text code (in Arduino C). View the Code Library to follow along.

EOweek Self-Practice 

Follow the video tutorials below (in order) to explore various use cases of Arduino UNO in real-life projects and applications. View the Code and Wiring to follow along.

Assignment

Design and build a smart gadget/device that fits one of the following themes:

• Smart Devices for Your Backpack

  • • Create a gadget/device that helps you while you're on the move — something that can live in your bag and makes your life easier, safer, more productive, or more fun.

• Smart Devices for Your Work Desk

  • • Create a gadget/device that stays on your desk — something that improves your workflow, reminds you of something important, keeps you focused, or simply brings joy to your workspace.

You’re free to define the problem and solution, as long as it fits one of those two themes.

Description:

• Find any exciting idea to do for the assignment: you may find cool ideas on Instructables, Hackster, Hackaday, or Arduino Project Hub. As long as it fits one of the two themes mentioned above.

• Please don't repeat the smart house and smart planter ideas, as they will not be accepted. Try to scout the internet for inspiration. And, you are encouraged to use new input and output components from your electronics kit.

• Google your idea and see how other people have wrote their code, and provide links to other codes that you've tweaked or reused in your assignment as reference.

• Make sure to take a look at the AI usage regulations page to see what is allowed and what is not.

• It’s always a good idea to build a piece of your final project as an assignment this week. Just make sure it fits all the requirements 😉

Technical Requirements:

• The smart device utilizes the Arduino UNO board to control the inputs and outputs.

• The smart device is programmed using Arduino C (Text Code) (Provide a screenshot of your Arduino C code, *.ino code file, and wiring diagram).

• The smart device includes two input components (at least) and two action components (at least).

• The smart device program utilizes:

  • • Two dynamic variables (at least)
      (For example, you can use the two dynamic variables to store the two input components readings.)

    • One if condition (at least).
      (For example, compare the sensor readings and take different actions accordingly.)

    • Logical operators (&& ||)   OR   Nested if condition (Select at least one of the two and utilize it in your Arduino program).
      (For example, use the logical operators to check for two different conditions at the same time and take actions accordingly.)
      (For example, use the nested if condition to add a mode selection functionality to your device. It can be switching from automatic control mode to manual control mode and vice versa.)

• The smart device is wired and tested with an actual Arduino board and electronic components on a breadboard (Provide a video recording of the final outcome).

• The smart device has an enclosure from cardboard, and the non-electric parts are prototyped from cardboard or any scrap material (You are not required to use any CAD or digital fabrication).

• The smart device is functional and achieves its intended objective

Maker Journal

Make sure to document your Assignment for Week 7 in the Maker Journal covering the following requirements:

Process Documentation:

• Theme and Ideation: Clarify the theme you selected and describe how you came up with the idea for the smart device/gadget. Were you inspired by a certain reference? or did you customize design it to fulfil a certain objective?

• Tools: Describe software, components, materials, and tools that you used in your assignment

• Design: Describe the design of your smart device. What are the input and action components that you used? Make sure to include a screenshot of your circuit wiring on Tinkercad or any other software (Fritzing or Microsoft PowerPoint). Explain your Arduino C code in detail, describe the code that you wrote using simple text, Pseudocode, or Flowchart format

• Implementation/Fabrication: Describe how you implemented your smart circuit on a breadboard and integrated the components within the enclosure. And most importantly, show us the final outcome of the assignment, make sure to include a video recording for your complete smart circuit in action

• Media: Provide supporting images and videos to demonstrate the design and implementation processes

Learning Documentation:

• Learning from Mistakes: Describe problems and challenges that you faced, and briefly describe solutions. How did you debug your code for error?

• Community of Learning: Highlight an advice or idea provided by a peer or an instructor that helped in solving a problem or a challenge. Or an advice that YOU provided to help your peer(s)