16. Applications and Implicaitons¶
“Ayes” Concept¶
I plan to make a humidifier for my eyes to relax them as my eyes always feel not so good and sometimes there has blood in eyes especially after I wear contacting glasses for a whole day. Eyes is the windows for the heart, it’s also the windows for exploring the colorful world. So it’s never too much to pay much attention to protect our eyes and relax eyes with multi-methods.
The eyes humidifier should be small enough to put in my bag and stay with me. In this way, I can relax my eyes at anyplace in anytime, especially in the subway. I always sleep with wearing the contacting glasses in the subway, and when I wake up, my eyes is extremely dry. If there is moist for eyes, the eyes should be feel better.
The first design of my project is
It could release the steam when the button is pressed. The tired eyes could feel better in the mist.
The purpose of my final project is to improve the above prototype in the following points : - Allow enough cool mist to reach the skin of eyes and help the eyes to relax and not dry anymore. - The mist could last for several minutes, press the button once, the mist appear.When you press the button twice, there’s no more mist coming out. - The electric board module is apart from the water container as the mist & water could make the wire or board rust. - Ayes is not only one eye humidifire, but also maybe one decoration.
Who has done what beforehand?¶
I find several similar final project in the Fablab, they are - FLO made by Kae-Nagano The FLO is an interactive fireplace humidifier. When you put fire wood, the size of flame will change accordingly. - Grow IT Yourself made by Albot Dima The project is a self contained growing system that cultivates plants from seed to maturity. Ultrasonic atomizer is used to water the plants through fertilizer-infused mist.The mist generator itself is purchased and MOS FET on the original board controls the output. - Cogus made by João Milheiro Cogus is a mushroom cultivation system. Ultrasonic mist generator is used for watering.
Design¶
The AYES is consists of following modules.
- The eyeball & Water container module
- Electric board module
The eyeball & water container module The eyeball module is designed to put eyes on it directly and enjoy the mist. For 1st verson, I design a eyeball shape in Rhino and print it by Ultimaker printer with PLA materials. It could focus the mist on the eyes and after 10 seconds, the water starts to drop from my eyes skin.
The water container is to supply enough water for the mist generator, and to add water easily. It looks like a simple container and is printed by 3 D printer.
So in my second trail, I design a flower to allow the mist spread out in the air, and my eyes could feel the cool mist and get relaxed without more liquid water remain in the skin. The water container is smaller but could contain enough water.
Electric board module
The module has 4 components, including the mist generator driver board, Ayes board that control the on/off of mist generator, the mist generator and the battery. - Mist generator driver board that I use is bought from Taobao. It needs 5 V, could connect with 2 atomized films and control them.
- Ayes board is designed to program and control the mist generator by connectting the GND & VCC & EN1 pins.
- The mist generator is a atomized film with one cotton swab, which could make the water vibrate and forms the mist. In this way, the mist is always cool and won’t hurt eyes, no matter how high temperature the water you use.
- The power could use USB wire or 1.5 V * 3 batteries. As the electric module is afraid of water, so I plan to design a seperate part for this module.
Problems & errors that I met¶
- In my first draft, there’s nothing to fix the atomized plate and it moves around and is easily broken. So I desgin one component to hold it tightly and also can fix the water container and flower part.
