XtremeRescue

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  Hardware Portion of Final Project

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  Presentation Time!

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Inspiration

We have all had our phones die out in the cold leaving us with no way to connect with other people or maps to get around or call for help if need be. We're here to help solve the issue and provide warnings so you're never left stranded again without a phone!

What it does

It warms up your phone if it is too cold, or cools down your phone if it overheats. This would be through controlled heated and cooling techniques. For example, we want to use a regulated heat source that has a direct correlation with the read temperature from the phone's battery source which tends to be the initializer of why the phone shuts down.

How we built it

We used an Arduino, the break out board, the breadboard, one of the free portable fans we received from sponsors' tables, a temperature sensor, led and a few other materials. The most difficult, but the interesting portion of our project is that we cut off the USB port of the fan and soldered wires to the ends of the internal wires and middle ground metal piece so that the Arduino software would be able to extrude an output signal that would power the attached fan.

Challenges we ran into

The portable fan had a micro-USB or a USB port, however, the Arduino kit did not come with the USB connector, so we had to cut the port, solder the wires connected to the USB port in the breadboard

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of soldering in order to get a USB fan into a breadboard for the purposes of our demo. It truly was a great learning experience that we are very grateful for since we learned more throughout the weekend than we could have imagined, not only about hardware but also about the different technological systems that now exist and much, much more

What we learned

We learned that if there's a will there's a way! We had a USB port that wouldn't connect to our own breadboard so after deliberation on possible solutions we came up with a way to solve that issue. We also learned to all work together and use common everyday problems as a basis for coming together, making memories and new friends, as well as learning to turn something we took as a given like our phone dying into actually something we can solve by taking an active role in our lives

What's next for XtremeRescue

Xtreme Rescue will work on creating a regulated heat pack to implement it into a real phone and make it work without any actual heating issues or without ruining the battery of the phone. After the heating issue is solved we will work on the cooling in extreme heat issue as well, but since we're from Chicago, we tend to have the freezing and the phone shutting down issue more than the overheating issue.

Built With

• arduino
• c++