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The idea is to have nightlight type devices that respond to bluetooth and motion. It can tell how close you are and who you are by BLE or iBeacon with your phone.
They would be inexpensive devices that you plug into the wall like a little cube phone charger. It would have a light on every side (RGB LED) to project on the wall and floor with different colors, and would have a BLE device and possibly an IR motion sensor to coordinate detected movement.
This way you can play games in your house, like "don't step in the lava" with red lights shining on the floor and switching on and off randomly as you try to walk down a hall. If you are in proximity when the light is red then you will get buzzed by your phone and lose points, etc.
You could also have a human pac man type of game where colors chase you, and if they catch you your phone could make a noise or buzz, etc.
Maybe also hide and seek with hidden tripwire alarms.
It would also be possible to use them to answer questions that you could ask Alexa or Siri, for example, and would answer with green for yes, red for no.
And you could of course use them as night lights, have a movie mode, have them flash when your cellphone rings for a silent ringer, or have modes like Party, Forest, Waterfall, Candles, etc.
There could also be a security mode, where if you put little motion sensors in your windows pointed outside the lights could track any stalkers that could be walking or lingering near your house from the inside.
For example:
The Lava GameA phone may not be required for all modes of operation. For example in the lava game, without begin controlled by an app, the game logic could be:
- Start with the color Green shining on the floor. Shine Blue on the walls for a background color.
- After an initial 10 seconds turn on the red light for 2 seconds
- At this point, choose a random color from red, green, blue, yellow and turn on that color for 2 seconds. If the color is red and motion is detected with the IR sensor, then buzz the piezo speaker.
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