chinmay modi

Globox

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January 2022

Physical Computing, Product, Prototype

Tom Antoniou, Chinmay Modi

Concept & Ideation, Electronics & Hardware, Partial Programming

Globox is a lamp which interacts with the temperature and the sound present in the environment. The temperature value changes the colors and the sound value controls the lid of the lamp.

def loop():
global current_state

if current_state == 0:
pass

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State 0

if current_state == 1:
# state that opens the box
print('...opening the box')
d.home()
d.clear()
servo_motor.goto(200)
# code to open the box
sleep_ms(3000)
current_state = 2

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State 1

if current_state == 2:
# read microphone
capture_sound(listen_timer)
start_listen()
print(sound_level)
print("\nTemperature: %0.2f C" % sensor.temperature)
d.home()
d.write("Temp: %0.2f C" % sensor.temperature)
d.move(0,1)
d.write(('Sound Lvl: ' + "{:.0f}".format(sound_level)))
# read temperature
current_state = 3

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State 2

if current_state == 3:
# move servo according to sound level
# if (sound_level > 15000 and sound_level < 39000):
# print ('normal sound')
# servo_motor.goto(175)
if sound_level > 65000:
servo_motor.goto(200)
print ('quiet')
if sound_level < 65000:
print ('loud sound')
servo_motor.goto(75)
# set color according to temperature
if (sensor.temperature >= 29):
d.color(0,0,255)
ringColor(blue)
# state 1
if (sensor.temperature <= 26):
d.color(255,0,0)
ringColor(red)
if (sensor.temperature < 29 and sensor.temperature > 26):
d.color(255,165,0)
ringColor(orange)
current_state = 2

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State 3

if current_state == 4:
# state that opens the box
print('...closing the box')
servo_motor.goto(0)
np.fill(black)
np.write()
d.clear()
d.color(0,0,0)
# after it's closed set current_state to 0 again
sleep_ms(3000)
current_state = 0
while(True):
loop()
touch_button.update()

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State 4

Prototype

/Interface & Interaction Modality

When the user touches the touch sensor on the front panel the lid pops up and in a few seconds it starts to read the temperature and the sound values present in the environment.
If the temperature is high the colors go cooler and if it is low the colors go warmer. If the sound value is high the lid goes down as if the box is scared and if the sound if low the lid stays up throwing most of the light.

/User Experience

The lamp can be used as a home appliance, in a library or also in an urban scenario. The fact that the colors go cooler in hot temprature and vice vera helps one to soothe the mind.
The sound interaction makes people around realise the amount of noise they are producing.

/Research & Development Context

The idea started from making a lamp for people who love to have a bot assistant for the perfect peaceful environment. Two of the main factors for such an environment was sound & temprature.
Further more the Globox can also incorporate the factors like scent, adjusting the light according to the light present in the environment, saving presets/modes of different environment types, etc.