The Watchman

The Watchman is an electronic wall sculpture that combines art, night lighting and security.

The working principle is very simple. It all is built around of Seeed Xiao RP2040 microcontroller board. Powered by a 3.7v Lithium-ion battery. RCWL-0516 doppler radar sensor detects the motion and sends the signal to MCU. Because the sensor's working voltage is above 4 voltage, I added a voltage booster. When the MCU gets a signal, its lights up the circular RGB LEDs.

Custom-Made PCBs

It has two custom-made PCBs. Both have my drawings on them.

The face-shape one is kindly made by Seeed Studio Fusion service. It holds the MCU board and has all the input/output pins.

Software

I have defined some colours for RGB LEDs:

#define AMBER    255, 100, 0
#define AQUA     50, 255, 255
#define BLUE     0, 0, 255
#define CYAN     0, 255, 255
#define GOLD     255, 222, 30
#define GREEN    0, 255, 0
#define JADE     0, 255, 40
#define MAGENTA  255, 0, 20
#define OLD_LACE 253, 245, 230
#define ORANGE   255, 40, 0
#define PINK     242, 90, 255
#define PURPLE   180, 0, 255
#define RED      255, 0, 0
#define TEAL     0, 255, 120
#define WHITE    255, 255, 255
#define YELLOW   255, 150, 0

The rest of the code is on the GitHub repository.

More images are on my website taunoerik.art.

The end!