Interactive Door
| Interactive Door Release status: experimental [box doku] | |
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| Description | An interactive door |
| Author(s) | Ricky Ng-Adam |
Physical computing is all about interactions human-machine... A door is one of the most common thing that humans interact with and is a promised of something worth seeing. How can the experience be improved or modified? Even locked, a door can be interactive. A door has a large surface area that can be augmented with sensors, displays, lights. A door is a large canvas that can painted, decorated and designed to be attractive. A door, locked or open, can interact with both users and passerby. A door access can be granted remotely, through possession of a physical object or through interactions in specific sequences. A door can display information and post information about its state, its sensors and environmental sensory input. A door state, locked or unlocked, is significant.
Ideas
- Servos and motors can be used to lock and unlock the door
- RFID reader can be used to grant access
- LCD (Nokia) displays can be embedded in the door to show text messages
- Ethernet shield connectivity can be used to post status updates to the Internet ("the space is opened", "the space is closed", "30 persons walked through the door today)
- Door knob can be made out of an original 3D design and "printed" using the CNC mill
- Flex sensors can be used to design a different type of keypad (flexing pieces of fabric)
- LEDs can add animation (infrared or not) to outline expected activities
- Infrared collision detection sensors or motion sensors can detect people walking by the door
- Mesh network can integrate into some home automation (close/open lights on door close/open)
- Voice recorder/player can add audio interactions (such as adding the ability to leave audio messages)
- Electronic "blinds" can be added
History
Project prototype was started at the TransFabric Workshop in FabLab Budapest, August 29th to September 1st
Original team members were:
- Chen Xu
- Liu Yan
- Kevin J Gotkin
- Ricky Ng-Adam
- Min Lin Hsieh
- Péter Kadlót
- Thomas Gideon
Current state
Working prototype that reads RFID and validates against an interactive website.
Schematic
TODO
- Update code to use validation from http://door.xinchejian.com
- XBee Wireless Programming (http://www.ladyada.net/make/xbee/arduino.html)
- Install next to the door and next to the wireless router
- Find electro-mechanic door-lock
- Add more fun sensors and actuators
- Switch and integrate to the Open Access control platform
References
- TransFabric: http://www.transfabric.org
- Source: https://github.com/xinchejian/XinCheJian-Door
- Deployment URL (AppEngine): http://door.xinchejian.com
- Access to WebApp: anyone in the XinCheJian domain
- Console: https://appengine.google.com/dashboard?app_id=xcjdoor
Related
- Open Access Control is an open-source hardware and software design for physical access to your space.
- Source code, Eagle cad files, and materials list are here: http://code.google.com/p/open-access-control/
- You can subscribe to the new mailing list here: http://groups.google.com/group/open-access-control
