The first tests DIY-dimmer "Smart Home"
In my last post, I talked about the idea of an interesting dimmer, which should soon be available in hardware. Today I will show a video with the first tests of this dimmer on a breadboard.
But first, a small lyrical digression. Quite a lot of questions have caused the word "innovative" in the title of the previous article.
I thought that a simple justification for this term could be a simple scheme for the inclusion of our dimmer. Without changing electrical wiring in a standard Soviet apartment and without the use of batteries. It turned out that I was not enough in the topic - in Europe there are commercially available Z-Wave devices with a similar principle of power.
Well, that’s why I started publishing information about my project at such an early stage. To collect feedback that is impossible to obtain, cooking in its own juice and listening to the opinion of two or three particularly close people. And although I still consider my project innovative (otherwise why bother to do it at all?), Its further name will be slightly changed. The essence of the changes is reflected in the title of this post.
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The main feature of the project becomes its focus on DIY-enthusiasts. Those who want to live in their "smart home", but who do not want to completely reinvent the wheel and mess around with a soldering iron at night. Those who want to simply connect their sensors to our modules, easily program them and quickly install them in different places of their home.
This is a root feature. This is not currently on the market. There is an Arduino, but it is of a different size, with a different power supply and less efficient in battery operation. Our modules (dimmer - the first of a set) will be a ready-made solution for new wave enthusiasts. Those who are so disliked by professional electronics engineers. Those who have already played with Arduino and want to apply their knowledge in the real world. Your smart home - where is more useful and more real?
Sorry for a lot of letters :) And now the actual video:
The video was shot by our hardware developer Alexander Rusin (Kiev, Ukraine), the voice-over also belongs to him.
NEXT: habrahabr.ru/post/195240
Slight change of focus
But first, a small lyrical digression. Quite a lot of questions have caused the word "innovative" in the title of the previous article.
I thought that a simple justification for this term could be a simple scheme for the inclusion of our dimmer. Without changing electrical wiring in a standard Soviet apartment and without the use of batteries. It turned out that I was not enough in the topic - in Europe there are commercially available Z-Wave devices with a similar principle of power.
Well, that’s why I started publishing information about my project at such an early stage. To collect feedback that is impossible to obtain, cooking in its own juice and listening to the opinion of two or three particularly close people. And although I still consider my project innovative (otherwise why bother to do it at all?), Its further name will be slightly changed. The essence of the changes is reflected in the title of this post.
')
Main feature
The main feature of the project becomes its focus on DIY-enthusiasts. Those who want to live in their "smart home", but who do not want to completely reinvent the wheel and mess around with a soldering iron at night. Those who want to simply connect their sensors to our modules, easily program them and quickly install them in different places of their home.
This is a root feature. This is not currently on the market. There is an Arduino, but it is of a different size, with a different power supply and less efficient in battery operation. Our modules (dimmer - the first of a set) will be a ready-made solution for new wave enthusiasts. Those who are so disliked by professional electronics engineers. Those who have already played with Arduino and want to apply their knowledge in the real world. Your smart home - where is more useful and more real?
Sorry for a lot of letters :) And now the actual video:
The first tests of the dimmer assembled on the breadboard
The inclusion of a conventional light bulb in smooth mode
The inclusion of energy-saving light bulbs in a smooth (not regular) mode
Switching on the energy-saving light bulb in normal mode (without dimming)
Turning on a normal light in dimmable mode
The video was shot by our hardware developer Alexander Rusin (Kiev, Ukraine), the voice-over also belongs to him.
NEXT: habrahabr.ru/post/195240
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/193510/
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