Final Project Proposal

Project Ideation

1- Tell us about the purpose of your project. Which problem does it solve? Why do you care about this? What were you inspired by? Include images and videos of similar projects

led strip

My project is a night reading box. What does this mean? It is a box with led strip with different illumination for the helper to read at night, in addition to a LCD that allow choosing the reading period, after which an alarm alerts me to the end of the specified time.

https://grathio.com/2011/06/how-to-not-your-ordinary-book-light/

In this website, the user turn a book into a light box which turning on with opening and turning of with closing the book.

wooden box as base to but arduino inside it and bulbs and LCD in the outside

klk paper

2- Describe the project idea and general features. How would it work?

The project is a help for night's reading. It will have led strip with potentiometer for different Intensity of illumination. And the LCD to displayspecified time for reading, which will be selected by a push button that will be designed, in addition to an alarm sound that applies after the specified time for reading expires and we I will use regular adaptor for power in with on/off switch.

In the beginning, the user will switch on thw device, choose the appropriate lighting with the potentiometer and the time to be read with some clicks on push buton, and then after the time expires, an alarm will sound from the buzzer used and light will turn off.


3- Sketch your project: You may use pen and paper or a simple sketching tool like Microsoft Paint or Photoshop

when the user pushes the button, the led is turned on. when the ldr sensor senses that the light is low the led intensity goes higher,then when the potentiometer controls the led the LDR sensor light can be higher. In complete features:we will use RTC sensor to count down the time input and buzzer as an alarm.

Project Planning

4- Describe the Technical Modules that your project consists of

Construction Parts

  • Base unit:

  1. laser cutted box consists of 5 faces of wood sheet and one face will be light defuser ( klk paper/ acrylic) 20*15*5 cm

  2. on one side we will have holes for ( electricity blug, on/off switch, LCD and potentiometer nop)

  • defuser unit: (klk paper/ acrylic) will be used to defuse light from led strip 20*15 cm

Input (Sensing and/or User)

  • LDR sensor

  • RTC sensor

  • potentiometer

Action

  • LCD

  • led strip

Brain

Arduino uno

Power Management

9v adapter

5- Create a cardboard prototype of your project, demonstrating the project face as well as internal movements and mechanisms. Include a demo video and photos of the prototype.


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6- Categorize your project’s User Features into: Minimum, Complete, and Nice-to-have features. List the required action and input components per feature.

  • Minimum Features: are the least amount of features that would demonstrate the coverage of all the technical modules and their complete integration

  • Complete Features: are the set of features that will complete your original project objective and vision

  • Nice-to-have Features: are the extra set of features that will make the project cooler, yet they need extra time, effort, and/or resources to finish

Minimum User Features

  • Appropriate light intensity

    • Action: measuring the intensity of the illumination

    • Sensing: potentiometer

    • User Input: manual mode: potentiometer

automatic mode: no user input


Complete User Features

  • Sound alarm ( after spending chosing time)

    • Action: buzzer

    • Sensing: RTC sensor

    • User Input: push button

Nice-to-have User Features

  • Music box

    • Action: sound

    • Sensing: SD card

    • User Input: push button


7- What are the project tasks and its time-frame?

Task

Sub-Tasks

From:

To:

Create Bill of materials

  • Research and list all components

  • Look up power requirements for all components

  • Calculate power source requirements


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Electronics & Programming on a breadboard (Minimum & Complete Features)

  • Feature 1: measure intensity of light

  • Feature 2: control intensity of light

  • Feature 3: time sensing

  • Feature 4: alarm sound


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Design Enclosure

  • Create CAD on Fusion 360

  • Create Mounting for components


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Fabrication & Integration

  • Fabricate and assemble the enclosure

  • Mount all components

  • Test minimum features

  • Test complete features


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8- What are the required electronic components and materials for the project?

Component/Material

Amount

Link

LDR sensor

1


RTC sensor


1

potentiometer


1

exists in the kit


potentiometer nop

1

LCD

1

exists in the kit


led strip


Arduino uno


1

exists in the kit


plywood

2 sheets


Acrylic

1 sheet

Buzzer

1

exists in the kit

Pushbutton

2

exists in the kit

relay

1

exists in the kit