Voice Control Lights Blinking Cycle

Description of our project:

Our projects involve original work such as we have functions to display multiple LEDs blinking. However the LEDs don’t blink in a default way such as blink then off, but more so that they have a variety of functionality, such as the LEDs demonstrate breathing cycle, wave cycle, disco cycle or random cycle. There are two ways this functionality will be performed, one is using our voice where it’ll take our voice and translate into a string which then will be used to input into different functions to perform different functionality. The other is a button which will do things manually in case there is some kind of problem with the voice control. The button in this case is used as a backup and our main focus will be making the voice control as effective as possible. We also will display the name of these functionalities to the LCD screen on the top row, and the second row can be displayed to suggest the functionalities. We have also searched the internet looking for the exact project and guarantee that our project is original.

Discussion on how to build your project :

The project will be used for testing out the strength and weakness of a person's voice. Through string command or frequency. We will also be using a button switch to power up either the RGB strip or the RGB ring. The RGB strip will be used in the wave pattern and the RGB ring will be used in a circular pattern and both the RGB strip and RGB ring will be used for the disco pattern. Let use begin on the circulation connection.

For the next steps you will only need the breadboard for ground and 5v connection other than that the other three steps do not need a breadboard.

Discussion on how the project is to be used :

Before we begin our discussion, if you have not done so, please follow each step to connect each hardware component to its proper location on the breadboard and Arduino. Once everything is properly connected follow these steps to guide you on what our project is doing. Decide if you're going to press the switch button or will you be using the application on your Android device to communicate with the Bluetooth adapter.

Option 1 switch button:

If you decide to use the switch button, then once you press the switch button, the button_count variable will raise by one. Now depending on the value of button_count, either the RGB strip, WaveCycle function call, the RGB ring, CircularCycle function call, or both will light up, DiscoCycle function call. For instance, if the value for button_count = 3, then the DiscoCycle function will be called and both the RGB strip and the RGB ring will light up.

button_count results:

● button_count = 1 the WaveCycle function call that RGB strip will turn on.

● button_count = 2 the CicularCycle function call that RGB ring will turn on.

● button_count = 3 the DiscoCycle function call that turns on the RGB strip and RGB ring.

● button_count = 4 the RandomCycle function call that will allow a random function call between WaveCycle function through DiscoCycle function.

Option 2 Android app to Bluetooth adapter:

If you decide to use the Android device please make sure to download the application known as “BT Voice Control for Arduino” to communicate with the Bluetooth adapter .The application is used by capturing our voice and sending our voice as a string to the Bluetooth adaptor. So, for the most part, the pitch of our voice will depend on how high the frequency was transferred to the Bluetooth adaptor.

Step 1:

Once the frequency transferred from Android smartphone application into the Bluetooth adapter the frequency will be read in and stored into store_voice_frequency. The variable store_voice_frequency, stores an integer that was converted from the string/pitch of our voice.

Step 2:

The store_voice_frequency, as a string command, will be used in our function ReceivingVocieFromPhone().

ReceivingVocieFromPhone(Store_voice_frequency) results:

● Using “turn on disco”, will call the function DiscoCycle() and turn on the RGB 60 Led lights strip

● Using “turn on circular” will call the function CicularCycle() and turn the last RGB 30 Led lights on

● Using “turn on wave” will call the function WaveCycle() and turn on the first RGB 30 LED lights on.

The LCD display 16*2. Once again please make sure to connect the LCD display 16*2 on the breadboard with the proper Arduino connections. Once you have completed the proper connections, then you are ready to use the LCD display 16*2 The LCD 16*2 displays what is needed to print out for the user to know what is going on in the program. It will print out the name of our program and print out what will be turned on depending on if you use a switch button or the Android application, from string frequency to an integer that will determine what must be turned on. For instance, one of our print statements to the LCD 16*2 display is . lcd.print(” RandomCyle turns on “). As you can see there the way to print something out in the LCD 16*2 display is by using the lcd.print() and placing your string inside the two circular brackets. RGB 60 led lights strip and RGB 93 led lights ring .

Once again please make sure that both the RGB 60 led lights strip and RGB 93 led lights ring are properly connected to the proper Arduino Uno r3 devices. If they are both RGB 60 led lights strip and RGB 93 led lights ring to connect properly let me explain what they do . RGB led lights have the capability of altering coloration by using, (R = red = 0 through 255, G = green = 0 through 255, B = blue = 0 through 255). Depending on what number you choose will determine the colorations brightness. Zero means unused and anything greater than zero means some type of brightness. Now since we are aware of what RGB led lights do to receive color, we can speak about how they are being used in the code.

In our code the RGB 60 led lights strip use :

● RGB 60 led strip as a description.

○ #define wave_pin 6

○ #define wave_count 60

○ #define color__combination GRB

○ #define chip WS2812B

○ #define Bright 200 ○ #define Frames_per_second 60

● This sets up the coloration for wave pattern, circular pattern and disco pattern.

○ FastLED.addLeds(leds, wave_count); Arduino UNO r3 Before we can use anything from the list above we would have to make sure to connect the Arduino Uno r3 by using the USB cable and connecting it to your computer, to power up the Arduino Uno r3. The Arduino Uno r3 is used to connect every device that we will need to power up. If you would ike to know which device is connected to the Arduino Uno r3 and with what pin please return to the setup and see how all of our devices are connected to the Arduino Uno r3. For instance, many of our devices, like the Bluetooth and LCD 16*2 displays need the Analog pin 5v to power up. Therefore, it is important to have a working Arduino Uno r3.

Comparing the previous sketch from the new sketch:. The major differences are, we removed all the led lights from the wave and added a RGB led lights strip with a digital connection associated with 6. Another change is with the RGB LED strip we connected a converter transistor in the event that there is not enough power that is generated by the Arduino Uno r3.

The diagram above shows the proper connection for every item we will be using in our project.

● Starting with the left we have a 16*2 LCD display with a potential meteor

● Next on the bottom we have our 60 RGB led light strip with a red and white wire that will connect to a Converter Transformer.5X2.5mm Plug.

● The top right has one item on the breadboard. The item is the Bluetooth adaptor.

● On the first breadboard, on the left, has a switch, next to the 16*2 LCD display..

● One thing we want to mention is, on this diagram we have a Converter Transformer 5.5X2.5mm Plug plugged into a power supply that will be attached to a 5v 8amps adaptor.

Discussion on how our project is to be used :

The project can be used in two ways to display the different functionality of the lights. One way is to use a button, so every time the button is pressed it will go in this order: wave, circular, disco, and random. The other way is to use voice recognition which is the main goal for this project. To do that first you’d have to connect to the Bluetooth and use a 3rd party software that is only available to the Android devices. Unfortunately for the iPhone, the connection is harder such that a connection between the serial Bluetooth and iPhone application might not work. Therefore, for Apple’s applications, the application is more limited such that there’s an option for voice recognition, but a typing of inputs, where the user needs to type in the functionality manually. Whereas, for the Android Users, they can use the voice recognition to turn different lighting functions like Disco lights, waves, and a bunch of other options to choose from. We also have an LCD, which will say which functionality is being used in real time.

List of Materials:

To receive most of these items purchase an ELEGOO UNO Project Super Starter Kit with Tutorial and UNO R3 Compatible with an Arduino IDE that contains a solder LCD display.

• One Arduino Uno R3.

• 16 LED lights 4 different colors.

• Hook up wires.

• An LCD display

• 3 or more breadboards

• 2 or more switches

• 2 or more 10 k resistors, used for the switches.

• WS2812B 5050 60 RGB LED strip.

• WESIRI 93 LEDs 6 Rings WS2812B 5050 RGB LED Ring Lamp Light Individually Addressable Full Dream Color DC5V with Mini Controller.

• Bluetooth adaptor

• 2 Female to Male Pupont Wire (10pcs). We will be using only 4 to 5 wires.

• USB power cable.

• 10k ohm potentiometer

• The app “BT Voice Control for Arduino”

• An Android device

• Aclorol 5V 8A 40W Power Supply AC/DC Power Adapter AC 100~240V to DC 5volt 8amps Converter Transformer 5.5X2.5mm Plug

• 2 220 resistors .

• A set of jumper cables for power and ground. You may use any color if not red and black jumper cables are preferred.

• A tiny screwdriver for the screws on the convertor transformer.

• A wire trimmer or scissors

Our group would like to mention a couple of things that we used primarily in our code.

Since we did this as students at the University of Illinois at Chicago we would like to thank our Professor Professor They for all the labs throughout the semester. Every lab we did for class helped in some way in shaping our project.

Usable source:

○ The main usable source that our group found helpful was FASTLED created by Daniel Garcia. His Libraries were very useful on how to use our RGB 60 LED light strip. The example we used to inspire use, in creating WaveCycle(), CircularCycle() and DiscoCycle(), was Mirroring.

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