WiFi Toi Boi - Tappy

Inspiration

Sick of learning new user interfaces and fighting to find a phone, or internet with an app to turn on a single device, Tappy was born out of a desire to provide a physical interface to use IoT, without the high learning curve.

What it does

Tappy is a tap sensor that can relay the number, or sequence of taps on a table, to effectively turn on, off, or toggle Internet of Things devices in your home. It resides in a room, and as such, interacting with the surface it intuitive as it will affect the devices in that room!

How We built it

We joined as a team of hardware, and software students to form two streams. The hardware team worked on the low level hardware and software to accurately determine the number of taps. The software team built a full stack, including middleware and controllers to connect, program, and control the Tappy units, as well as send requests to the IoT devices in your home!

Challenges I ran into

This project was very high in service interaction and integration, as such, we ran into many problems in getting a development environment that would accept an handle requests!

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

We worked well in leveraging out individual strengths to produce each of the delicate components required; coming together to integrate the final product!

What I learned

I learned about low level hardware and programming from the hardware team, and the hardware team learned much about application and service exchange from the IoT we had to do.

What's next for WiFi Toi Boi - Tappy

Bigger and greater things - seek further development! Watch this space!

Built With

• alienware
• apache
• esp8266
• iot
• javascript
• laptop
• laravel
• query
• raspberry-pi
• wifi