Let the sun guide your way at night!
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Each video I will grab a random electronic component from the vault and build a circuit - this week I make the third major iteration of a hallway light project. It gathers energy by day and then guides your path at night - nice!
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Light a path with stored sunlight, and have fun doing it, even foolin' with infrared detection, a Joule Thief and PWM. Nice! Great project.
Thank you! 👍😀
Very good.
Nice little design! I agree about not sitting on the panel, but then again, if out of the way, what matter is it.
I do like how you did the ramp in and out. I imagine this is very effective for a nighttime slumber to the restroom.
So far, so good. 👍😀
Brilliant, great stuff as ever - keep them coming!
Thank you! 👍😀
Neat.
I am reaching the age and stage where I need this device. I am presently working on a comical robot design. Tips for you... I think that you should not use the edge of the solar panel as a support, when turned on its side. Just make that dimension of the box wider, or print a supporting leg, to keep the weight off of the solar panel. Some solar panels have a glass lens. Should it break/chip, you have a genuine slicing hazard. I could not tell what color of LED that you are using. But, red is a great choice. Why? Because red does not cause your eye to contract. This condition is called "night blindness." It limits your vision in the dark, until your vision adjusts, which takes about 10 minutes, IIRC. This is why the control panels in aircraft are illuminated with red lights. Changing to red may prevent a stubbed toe... Ouch! Thanks for sharing and teaching. Truly appreciated!
It’ll be interesting how the prototype ages! The LED is yellow, very good for night eyeballs. 😀👍
@@onecircuit-asI am using a DIY PIC12F683 (which very much seems to be an ATtiny85, with just the Vsupply and GND pins reversed) to make a RGB LED Demo Board. So, I can make any color I desire. I am using the Tiny to drive the bases of individual transistors, for each LED color. This is important, because it allows me to add additional LEDs in parallel, to gain more light. The transistors are providing the additional current... greater than what the Tiny could supply, by itself. The LEDs are common anode. The board is about the size of a common USA postage stamp. The robot parts are just repurposed trash, which makes for a fun challenge.
I find the key is to wind back the speed of the uC to reduce power requirements, and also to sleep when not needed. 👍😀
The idea of changing orientation day/night seems a little too labour intensive , why not design for solar cell etc.at the "correct " angles without need for day/night positioning ?
All of our lights are moved every evening from their light gathering windowsill location to hallways/rooms where the light is needed. Orientating one way or another is no big impost in that regime.
Fair enough , I have a few similar lights but they stay on the windowsills of the rooms they are needed in , so I suppose it's all a question of horses for courses 🙂@@onecircuit-as