Lesson 16 - Applications and Implications

This week we are approaching to our final project....can't believe we are already there..
I will create my final project together with Gali.
Our project is a smart curtain-separation system that can react to light.


Summary

We are creating a smart curtain-separation system that can read the light in the ambient and reacting to it.
The concept relays on 2 major aspects - sensing the light / separating a space and a sensitive controlled light fixture.

Scenario

Acting as a curtain :
When the device will sense that there is light outside or that the space should be "open"
The shatters will turn and flip to their maximum aperture
to reveal the window / the separated area.

When the device will sense that it is getting dark outside / separation is required
The shatters will turn up to their full closure and create the pattern.

In this state of the device, there will be also the possibility to control the lightning,
so the device will emit light as a decorative lighting fixture
thanks to LEDs based on each shutter..

UX

The user will have the possibility to change the curtain manually and lit on and off the lights according to his needs,
or can leave the system to be operated by itself relaying on the lighting state of the surrounding,





Details

1.Shutters -
the shutters will be the main component of the product,
it will be multiply by 16 and will create a screen of 650X800mm curtain.
The shutters will be made from mirrored Plexiglas and will be cut and engraved by the laser machine.

2.Shutters structure -
Each shutter will be divided to two parts (wings) with a middle butterfly hinge all along.
Into the hinge component a metal or carbon 4 mm bar will be inserted to create the hinge.
The base of each shape will be attached to a gear - operated by a servo engine.
A specific series of holes will be made along each wing in order to insert LED into it.
The LED will be attached by a component to be made in 3D printer and will attach both,
the led to the wing and will create an anchor for a spinal stick, to ease the movement of the wing.



3. mechanism

Each wing of the shutter could make a movement that synced with the rest of the wings attached to the gear.
The movement angle will be in the range of 0 to 80 degrees.

4.electronics

Photocell sensors will be placed on 2 PCB boards that will control the servo engines.
The engines will know to create a movement according to the data that will be given by the sensors.
The LEDs that will cover each shutter will create a lightning fixture the moment the sensors will output that there is dark OR manually by the user.
We would also would like to create a node networking between each shutter wing in order to create an effect with the light.