Wireless Lighting Control for Night Festivals: An Innovative Artistic Presentation Solution
This project showcases a new hardware and software solution for wireless lighting control at nighttime festivals. Designed by Anton Zuponcic, Danny Hagaman, Eric Bangen, Luke Buer, and Tony Zhang, it aims to enhance artistic expression by eliminating wires and expanding stage possibilities. Utilizing the Teensy microcontroller and XBEE technology, our design emphasizes cost efficiency with a 4-layer PCB and readily available components from DigiKey. The system allows for customizable control of digital I/O, ADC, and PWM outputs, giving artists greater freedom to convey their vision.
Wireless Lighting Control for Night Festivals: An Innovative Artistic Presentation Solution
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Battle For Everyouth Anton Zuponcic, Danny Hagaman, Eric Bangen, Luke Buer, Tony Zhang
Motivation • Artistic presentation during a night time festival. • Wirelessly control lighting hardware. • Generalized for expanded future uses. • Creating more choices for artists to express their ideas using electronics. • Eliminates wires. • Expands the stage.
Solution • Hardware solution • Wireless Transmitter Communicating with Microcontroller. • Luke, Eric, and Tony. • Software solution • Control Output of Digital I/O, ADC, and PWM. • Danny and Anton.
Layer and Packaging • In our design, we need to use Eagle to make Library, Schematic, and board. These are then sent to the fabrication company for printing. • There are two things that we need to address: • The cost: in order to be cost efficiency, we used a 4 layer design. • To the concern of solderability and availability; we chose a specific packaging format. TSSOP (and so on)
Availability of components • We ordered most of our components via DigiKey and TSSOP. They carry the more popular types at low cost with plenty of stock. • Fig 1. the DC step-up IC we chose (from Digi-Key)
8 – TSSOP specifications • According to the Datasheet, we can Specify the foot- Print in Eagle Precisely Fig 2. Devise dimention From the datasheet from Fairchildsemi.com
One Library • Eagle doesn’t have all the IC and components that we use, so we need to create the library. • There are three steps to make a library: 1. symbol 2. package 3. connect them
One Library • Here is the procedure to make an IC library:
Hardware DesignMain Players XBEE Teensy++
Board Specifics • Power • Battery Powered (3.7V LiPo) • Boost Supply for +5V (TPS61085PWR) • Teensy • LDO for +3.3V (TPS73633DCQR) • XBEE • Battery Charging • USB-Mini (MCP73831) • Buffering • Bi-Directional Buffering • MAX3378
Board Specifics • Complete Header Access – Teensy • QNTY 46: 3-pin headers (Signal, PWR, GND) • Covers every Teensy Signal Pin • QNTY 2: 2x5 Shrouded Header • Allows connection to other boards used by customer
Software Requirements • ADC • Variable Rate Sampling • 1 Hz – 100 Hz • Digital I/O • Variable Rate Sampling • 1 Hz – 100 Hz • PWM • Variable Duty Cycle • 0 – 100% • Hardware • >1 kHz • Software • 10 Hz – 1 kHz • Changed via Simple Commands