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Wake up to the Upcycled Clock - Intro

carmelito

I would like to start this post by thanking the folks at element14, and the sponsor Intel for selecting my proposal for the design challenge. And here is a quick intro to my challenge entry -"Wake up to the Upcycled Clock"

 

I have an old clock which was handed to me by my mom and is one of the few thing I had the movers pack, when I moved from Toronto,Canada to Los Angles,CA for work. The idea is here is to upcycle the clock and add some smarts to it using the Intel Edison. If you plan on doing something similar or using some of the features of the project, stay tuned! for blog posts with all the details..  (tag to follow for the list of the blog posts - UpcycledClock)

 

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Here are the features that I plan to implement over the period of the challenge.

  • Show the inside temperature and humidity on the screen using a DHT sensor on OLED screen
  • Show weather conditions outside
  • Show the outside temperature and humidity using openweathermap.org
  • Show the Air Quality at home and send an email out if the air quality falls below a certain threshold.
  • Notification light for gmail,youtube and twitter mentions, here the plan is to replace the a couple of mirrors section of clock with acrylic laser cut pieces with addressable LEDs shining behind them to show an email, youtube channel you subscribe is live and mentioned in a tweet.
  • Web app which you can pull up on your mobile/laptop written in python-flask to display all of the features above.
  • The web app will also be used to set the alarms.
  • Using espeak for text to speech to read out the weather condition after the alarm rings in the morning.
  • Detect door opening in the evening which will trigger a read out for the weather condition,tweets and email
  • Spring is here which means summer is around the corner and yes! allergies image.I will have to show pollen counts and will have to have a visual indicator for the same.
  • Potentiometer to set the alarm on the clock , I will have to think of a good spot to add the pot with out affecting aesthetics,if I don't add the pot to clock I will do a write up for this.
  • As part of the setup,I will also do a write up on posting data to Intel cloud analytics for the data nerd out there! image(https://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-iot-platforms-getting-started-cloud-analytics)

 

As part of the hardware, here is the list of components I plan to use in addition to the Intel Edison, most of which I already have

 

 

For the software/code I plan to use

 

In addition,I will also be 3D printing with wood filament to hold the electronic components to the back of the clock. And, also plan to laser cut acrylic to replace the mirror panels for the email, tweet notification and to add the screen as shown in the picture above.

  • in reply to mcb1

    Thanks for the suggestion , that is a great idea! given the size of the screen, i think I should have enough space for a pot, and may be even a couple of buttons. I will try 3D print parts for this, and prototype this over the weekend with an Arduino and post a couple of picture. Thanks again - Carmelito

  • in reply to carmelito

    I am pretty sure my Mom's going to yell at me

    Best to avoid that ...

     

    I wonder if you could incorporate it into the display housing.

    If the whole thing was a bit 'deeper' and covered the whole segment, then you might have room for a button, pot and other bits.

     

    Mark

  • in reply to mcb1

    , yes the little mirrors on the clock can be removed, i did run a few tests before posting the proposal image, and the idea there is to replace then with acrylic cut outs to show notification. The difficult bit will be to add a display, the idea there is to create a couple of 3D printed prototypes to see how it would fit/look , but having said that I am going to have to drill some holes through the wood for the wires to pass through.

     

    As you guessed,  there is no way! I am going to add a potentiometer to clock for the alarms, as that would mean I will have to drill a hole on the side rim of the clock. And if I were to do that, I am pretty sure my Mom's going to yell at me image. But the idea is to write a blog and for the final setup use python-flask app which will be hosted on the Edison to setup alarms.

  • in reply to Workshopshed

    Here is the link to eSpeak - eSpeak Speech Synthesizer , I have tried it with a Pi about a year ago. I know it supports multiple languages but never tried anything other than English, and the default setup. I will experiment with it a little bit and report back..

  • I liked this when i saw it in the applications.

    it's a very nice clock that has sentimental value and can be altered without impacting on the abilty to restore it to original.

     

     

    I wonder if you could simply set the alarm using the IoT functions.

     

     

    Mark