IoT Goosebot

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Have you ever seen one of those videos of a box that simply turns itself off after being turned on by a user and thought, "...How useless?" Well I found a way to make that box just a little less... useless! The University of Waterloo's 2016 1st Place EngHack Winner, was awarded to my two teammates and I, who designed a Waterloo themed useless box that uses an Android app to incorporate user customization. This not only added IoT functionality to the box, but additionally gives the user the power to remotely define new patterns in which the box can turn itself off - via an array of light bulbs, speakers, and servo motors.

My team members and I started this project by building a wooden box at the machine shop that enclosed all the necessary hardware components. Next we wired, soldered, and assembled all of our circuit elements with an Arduino Uno driving the system and a Particle Photon for wi-fi connection. Finally, we developed the control program of the GooseBot that was written in C++ in such a way that allows the user's box to open in one of two ways: with preset patterns or patterns designed by the user on the Android app.