Clene

About

Clene is a set of two networked devices that monitors cleaning activities, displays activity in remote locations, and allows for gestures of “thanks” to be sent to the cleaner. It works by detecting movement of an armband worn by anyone cleaning and sending a signal to dish-receivers placed throughout the house. The remote dishes passively portray that cleaning activity is happening in the kitchen by moving the attached sponge back and forth. Household members can send a “thanks” by waving their hand across the dish-receivers; this message of gratitude is delivered to the dish washer in the form of vibro-tactile feedback. The entire system is anonymous; we hope it will: help improve collective awareness of cleaning in the house, be noticeable yet non-disruptive and reduce competitive or passive-aggressive behavior.

Device Interactions:

• User wears armband while taking care of cleaning tasks, such as washing dishes.

• Armband movement triggers sponge movement in bowl of awareness. Blinking speed of an LED on the bowl is also increased.

• Waving gesture in front of the bowl sends a signal to vibrate the armband

• For every 15 minutes that cleaning doesn’t happen the blinking rate of LED decreases

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	DC motor (generic)
	GY-521 MPU-6050 3 Axis Gyroscope + Accelerometer Module For Arduino
	Plastic bowl (of awareness)
	Redboard
	photoresistor
	LED (generic)			Buy from Newark Buy from SparkFun
	Servos (Tower Pro MG996R)
	kitchen sponge

Instructions

To make armband:

1. Redboard #1 to Accelerometer breakout board:

1. 5V to VCC

2. GND to GND

3. Analog4 to SCL

4. Analog5 to SDA

2. Redboard #1 to DC Motor (see schematic)

3. Wire an LED to be driven by digital13

To make bowl of awareness:

1. Redboard #2 to 180-degree servo (see schematic)

2. Wire an LED to digital 9

3. Wire a photoresistor to anolog0

Wire communication between the redboards:

1. ground to ground

2. analog4 to analog4

3. analog5 to analog5

More details available here: http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/MasterWriter

The code

DC Motor Schematic

Servo Motor Schematic

Prototype Snapshots

Demo

Starring John and Moeka

Idea Formation Sketches