Luxel - Control the light in your life.

Team Luxel: Eric James Lau, JinCan Lin

Created July 20, 2016

Luxel - Control the light in your life.

Luxel gives you control of your light to make every task easier.

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Things used in this project

Hardware components

LED lights

Adafruit Flora RGB Neopixel LEDs- Pack of 4

Story

Luxel - Control the light in your life.

We believe that smart lighting makes the day to day more fluid, starting from the moment you wake up. That’s why we designed Luxel with state-of-the-art LED technology to bring convenience to your morning, evening, and night. You'll feel happier and calmer with Luxel by your side.

What are you creating?

Luxel is the smartest light fixture you’ve ever experienced.

Luxel is a cylindrical lamp fixture for your desk top that doubles as portable vanity lighting to use in front of any mirror. Users can calibrate the intensity and temperature of the LEDs to create any mood they want while working at their desk or in front of a mirror.

1 / 2 • RGB LEDs sit on top of the cylindrical lamp head, Luxel

Luxel has two main applications.

Use it as a desktop lamp or as a portable light fixture for vanity or photography lighting.

Luxel give you unprecedented control of your lighting, reducing energy costs, and creating any lighting scheme for any kind of work.

Luxel is easy to use and responsive.

Luxel contains motion sensors responsive to location, time, and the user.

Users can configure Luxel through the LuxSync app and sync their location, time, and alarms while controlling the color and temperature of their light through Bluetooth technology.

Set an alarm time with the LuxSync app and configure Luxel to illuminate blue lighting through it’s top 4 RGB LEDs to stimulate your natural waking pathways. This modifies the C by GE LED technology to make the morning wake up routine more intelligent and responsive through integration with users’ alarms.

Luxel lets you control light to do many things.

Luxel also doubles as a vanity lighting fixture with the mirror clamp mount LuxGlam. The LuxGlam gives users the ability to attach their Luxel to create vanity lighting to use for their makeup application.

We know many people have busy mornings so we also designed luxel to help you keep track of time with light! Open up the LuxSync app and configure the Luxel’s top color LEDs to illuminate from red to green after the first five minutes and from green to blue after another five minutes. Luxel serves as a timer and helps you stick to your schedule with the power of light under your fingertips.

This will allow users to utilize the full scope of the Luxel’s temperature adjusting capabilities.

What does it do?

Luxel is capable of:

1. Utilizing motion sensors and a microphone to make lighting wireless. Once the user is up and standing in front of the Luxel, the motion sensor activates and the current outside temperature is displayed along with lighting around the sides of the Luxel signaling the forecast for the day. Yellow is sunny, grey is cloudy, blue is rainy, and white is snowy.

From there, the user can utilize the voice command feature to change the temperature of the light to see what they’ll look like in different settings. This feature has the most benefit for users who use makeup.

2. Creating the perfect vanity lighting to use with any mirror. Based on the user interviews we’ve conducted, one of the biggest problems with applying makeup is the both the inability to modulate the temperature of the lighting and maintain an even distribution of lighting. The standard overhead light does not have setting specific temperature control. For example, makeup applied in a bathroom at home under standard overhead lighting will look different when the user goes to work where the lighting is a different temperature. The tones and shades of makeup originally applied at home will vary based on location. Luxel corrects for this discrepancy by allowing the user to adjust the temperature of the lighting to match the location of their final destination.

Why does it matter?

Luxel adds color to your morning.

Luxel alleviates the stressful lives of millennial generations and generation Xers.

Luxel has future applications in software.

Code

Luxel RGB LED colors

RED_PIN   = 17
GREEN_PIN = 22
BLUE_PIN  = 24
STEPS     = 1


import os
import sys
import termios
import tty
import pigpio
import time
from thread import start_new_thread

bright = 255
r = 255.0
g = 0.0
b = 0.0

brightChanged = False
abort = False
state = True

pi = pigpio.pi()

def updateColor(color, step):
	color += step
	
	if color > 255:
		return 255
	if color < 0:
		return 0
		
	return color


def setLights(pin, brightness):
	realBrightness = int(int(brightness) * (float(bright) / 255.0))
	pi.set_PWM_dutycycle(pin, realBrightness)


def getCh():
	fd = sys.stdin.fileno()
	old_settings = termios.tcgetattr(fd)
	
	try:
		tty.setraw(fd)
		ch = sys.stdin.read(1)
	finally:
		termios.tcsetattr(fd, termios.TCSADRAIN, old_settings)
		
	return ch


def checkKey():
	global bright
	global brightChanged
	global state
	global abort
	
	while True:
		c = getCh()
		
		if c == '+' and bright < 255 and not brightChanged:
			brightChanged = True
			time.sleep(0.01)
			brightChanged = False
			
			bright = bright + 1
			print ("Current brightness: %d" % bright)
			
		if c == '-' and bright > 0 and not brightChanged:
			brightChanged = True
			time.sleep(0.01)
			brightChanged = False
			
			bright = bright - 1
			print ("Current brightness: %d" % bright)
			
		if c == 'p' and state:
			state = False
			print ("Pausing...")
			
			time.sleep(0.1)
			
			setLights(RED_PIN, 0)
			setLights(GREEN_PIN, 0)
			setLights(BLUE_PIN, 0)
			
		if c == 'r' and not state:
			state = True
			print ("Resuming...")
			
		if c == 'c' and not abort:
			abort = True
			break

start_new_thread(checkKey, ())


print ("+ / - = Increase / Decrease brightness")
print ("p / r = Pause / Resume")
print ("c = Abort Program")


setLights(RED_PIN, r)
setLights(GREEN_PIN, g)
setLights(BLUE_PIN, b)


while abort == False:
	if state and not brightChanged:
		if r == 255 and b == 0 and g < 255:
			g = updateColor(g, STEPS)
			setLights(GREEN_PIN, g)
		
		elif g == 255 and b == 0 and r > 0:
			r = updateColor(r, -STEPS)
			setLights(RED_PIN, r)
		
		elif r == 0 and g == 255 and b < 255:
			b = updateColor(b, STEPS)
			setLights(BLUE_PIN, b)
		
		elif r == 0 and b == 255 and g > 0:
			g = updateColor(g, -STEPS)
			setLights(GREEN_PIN, g)
		
		elif g == 0 and b == 255 and r < 255:
			r = updateColor(r, STEPS)
			setLights(RED_PIN, r)
		
		elif r == 255 and g == 0 and b > 0:
			b = updateColor(b, -STEPS)
			setLights(BLUE_PIN, b)
	
print ("Aborting...")

setLights(RED_PIN, 0)
setLights(GREEN_PIN, 0)
setLights(BLUE_PIN, 0)

time.sleep(0.5)

pi.stop()

Credits

Eric James Lau

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UC Berkeley Product Designer and Sociology major

JinCan Lin

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Luxel - Control the light in your life.

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Story

Luxel - Control the light in your life.

Schematics

Luxel's Cost Modeling

Code

Luxel RGB LED colors

RGB LED pigpio

Credits

Eric James Lau

JinCan Lin

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Luxel - Control the light in your life.

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Things used in this project

Hardware components

Story

Luxel - Control the light in your life.

Schematics

Luxel's Cost Modeling

Code

Luxel RGB LED colors

RGB LED pigpio

Credits

Eric James Lau

JinCan Lin

Comments

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