Our project is an unconventional electronic lamp; it converts an everyday conventional table lamp into a device that can show the daily most-needed information such as weather, time and some other information in an easy, interesting and modern way by projecting this information on the lamp overlay cloth.
This electronic lamp system basically consists of an Arduino microcontroller, a Bluetooth module that is used to get information from mobile application, in addition to a number of motors, drivers and other elements.
We designed this project to be powered by home electricity (220 V). Moreover, we used RGB LEDs to provide flexible/versatile coloring options. The project also contains sensors to provide other information like the local temperature.
The information will be displayed on the lamp using the idea of light projection and shadows. A motor will be used to alternate a set of symbolic pictures that correspond to the different displayable states, in addition to another set of RGB LEDs that will be manipulated to display the time.
We got the idea of this project from an existing project called Bluetooth -Low Energy Weather Lamp, which uses Bluetooth to display the weather information on a table lamp. In this project we further extend this idea to include incorporating elements like the sensors and a more sophisticated mechanism for displaying larger number of information like the time, which utilizes a different approach for handling the display process.