Home Security, Home Everything

Inspiration

Our inspiration for this project stemmed from the endless possibilities of automation provided by a home surveillance, or awareness system.

What it does

This system is capable of responding to burglars in an attempt to scare them away through built-in mechanisms of the home. Additionally, through machine vision cameras inside are able to identify and classify objects and their positions, working in tandem with a large language model that can provide assistance to the homeowner with household conveniences.

How we built it

We made the house mostly of laser-cut wood, and used an Arduino Uno Q and an ESP32 microcontroller to control a servo, LED ARGB lights, and a DC motor.

Challenges we ran into

The biggest challenge was attempting to place such a large load on the Arduino with the local machine learning model and the camera feeds. The second biggest challenge was building the house in time.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are extremely proud that we were able to do as much with this build as we did, but we are most proud of creating a concise electrical system that doesn't waste any of its capabilities.

What we learned

A lot was learned over the last twenty-four hours, and for some of us the others' names were among that. We mostly learned about the value of maintaining hope in the team even when things didn't look very good. We definitely challenged our teamwork skills with our differing personalities and acquaintance-status.