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Basic Dashboard
Filtering by quiet sleeping rooms
Filtering by lively social rooms for discussions
Filtering by productive working rooms

Description

Using data coming from an Arduino equipped with a light, temperature, and noise sensor, we created a tool that allows participants at Hackathons to oversee all available hacking rooms and find one that would suit their personal hacking needs.

How it's made

Using the Arduino, the base shield and multiple components, we're able to calculate the temperature of a room in Celsius and the noise level in decibels. The light level of a room was calculated within a range, and is scaled to a percentage. Each device connects to a Node backend which allows data to be displayed on a dashboard for a React frontend.

Background

While brainstorming for an idea, our team was having great difficulty since the noise level in the hacking room was well over the decibels emitted by a commercial airliner and the overall room temperature was on par with the Sahara desert. To solve our predicament, we wandered through the halls of UWestern to find the perfect hacking room.

Once we found the perfect location, the idea came to us to make a hack that would display the current noise level, temperature and lighting of various locations in a building which would be essential for a team trying to find a good hacking spot.

Built With

Submitted to

Hack Western 5

Created by

I worked mainly on the hardware and backend. As part of that, I set up the Arduino with the sensors to receive and transmit environment data and the LCD backlight indicator for displaying the processed data. I also set up the Node JS backend for receiving data and transmitting it to the front end as well as data processing. Lastly, I contributed towards the front end by creating indicator lines for average and optimal data levels.

Ron Li
4th Year Business Administration and Computer Science Student at WLU and UW
Steve Zhu
hygzhu@gmail.com
Ming Xu
Qingda Zou
qingda.zou@gmail.com