Actuator Experimentation (Nate + Aleksei)

Reminder: for our project, we are building a nightstand lamp with distance sensing functionality to tackle the tech addiction problem. Our device will help users to embrace healthy sleeping routine by putting down their devices and engaging into reading books in the bed.

Last time we built a prototype device using LED light, photocell, and distance sensor. We were able to make it detecting room lighting and proximity of the book from the ultrasonic sensor. In our further exploration we added the relay to control a 110V lamp by our device.

Here's the video of our prototype in action.

After testing the code and functionality of our prototype we used Fritzing app to build the final schematic for our device.