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Auto-Window Project
Category:
Misc
Progress: In Progress
Cost: About 200 bucks
Time to Build: 8 months
This is a system I developed to close automatically a home window when it detect rain. But I extended it to remote manual controls and more sensors with logic. I plan another different sensors to install on it, but on this first prototype I just used Rain and Temperature.
The mini prototype cost about 20 bucks and 1 week of hard work. The real size one cost about 200 bucks and 8 months of lots trouble obtaining the pieces. For now, it just need to be installed in a real window.
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hahaha thank you! I'm new on
hahaha thank you! I'm new on it
at least, I didn't use any microcontroller on this 2 prototypes. I was restricted to use only what they teach at school [this project is also for school grades xD] so the logic I used was based on TTL technology. Futurely I want to build one using microcontrollers and a HMI that makes the client choose some logic options or enable/disable sensors virtually. What do you think?
Good stuff! Back in high
Good stuff!
Back in high school (yikes...'93 or so?) we built a system like this for a "Photovoltaics Fair" -- basically the same idea you have, except also powered by solar cells. Our idea was that it should be a window for an attic or upstairs window, to help with attic venting on hot days, etc.
Back at that time, we didn't have the variety of micro-controllers now available, so everything was done with old-fashioned logic -- comparators, relays, etc. It was a nightmare to get the settings right (we based the open/close decision on the "rain" sensor as well as "internal" and "external" temperature sensors and light level). Would be fun to do something like this again!