Published October 1, 2017

Motion Activated Night Light

Lights from LEDs will light up as soon as the PIR motion sensor detects a motion.

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Things used in this project

Hardware components

Jumper wires (generic)

PIR Motion Sensor (generic)

Breadboard (generic)

Arduino UNO

SparkFun LilyPad Rainbow LED (strip of 7 colors)

ANY RGB LED STRIP

OpenBuilds 12V/29A Power Supply

Software apps and online services

Arduino IDE

Story

Purpose

This is my latest project at university. I am really new to this. So I decided to make a Motion Activated Night Light and put it in my bathroom or in my closet. This way I don't have to find the switch button to turn on the light in the middle of night or go back and forth to the switch light and closet.

Build Process

These are the steps I took.

I tested the Arduino with PIR Motion Sensor to see how it works. So I connected the black wire from GND to Arduino GND, the white wire from out to Arduino Pin 2 and the grey wire from VCC to Arduino 5V.

After that I made a DIY box. This is just a mock-up to represent a 'toilet' or 'closet' - a place for me to put my LED strip, so this is very optional.

The LED strip has 4 pins which are: 12V (black), R (red), G (green) and B (blue).

So I connected the black one to breadboard on '+', blue to A0, red to A1 and green to A2.

I used this 12V Power Supply as the source for this project. I connected the '+' (white) to the breadboard's '+' and (black) wire to Arduino GND.

Then I used another male to male wire and connected the breadboard's '+' to Arduino Vin as shown in diagram (the red wire connected from breadboard to Arduino).

Lastly, again, this is just optional as I just made my own mock-up. I put everything together in the box and turned it on. That's it!

Code

Simple code that works

/*#define Bpin 8;
#define Rpin 9;
#define Gpin 10;*/
/*int Bpin = analogRead(A0);
int Rpin = analogRead(A1);
int Gpin = analogRead(A2);*/
int Bpin = A0;
int Rpin = A1;
int Gpin = A2;
int Motion = 2; //PIR sensor
int state = LOW;
int val = 0;

void setup() {
  // put your setup code here, to run once:
  pinMode(Motion, INPUT);
  pinMode(Bpin, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(Rpin, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(Gpin, OUTPUT);

  //Serial.begin(9600);
}

void loop() 
{
  val = digitalRead(Motion);

if(val == HIGH)
{
  Serial.println("Menyala");
  if (state == LOW)
  {
    state = HIGH;
  }
  
// put your main code here, to run repeatedly:
for(int fade = 0; fade <=255; fade +=5)
{
analogWrite(Bpin,fade);
}
for(int fade = 255; fade >= 0; fade -=5)
{
analogWrite(Bpin,fade);
delay(10);
}
for(int fade = 0; fade <=255; fade +=5)
{
analogWrite(Rpin,fade);
delay(1000);
}
for(int fade = 255; fade >= 0; fade -=5)
{
analogWrite(Rpin,fade);
delay(1000);
}
for(int fade = 0; fade <=255; fade +=5)
{
analogWrite(Gpin,fade);
delay(1000);
}
for(int fade = 255; fade >= 0; fade -=5)
{
analogWrite(Gpin,fade);
delay(1000);
}

}

else
{
Serial.println("Tidak Menyala");
if (state == HIGH)
  {
    state = LOW;
  }
int dim = LOW;
analogWrite(Bpin,dim);
analogWrite(Rpin,dim);
analogWrite(Gpin,dim);
}

}

Credits

Haziq Afandi

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Motion Activated Night Light

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Software apps and online services

Story

Purpose

Build Process

Schematics

Real life diagram

Code

Simple code that works

Credits

Haziq Afandi

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Motion Activated Night Light

Motion Activated Night Light

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Software apps and online services

Story

Purpose

Build Process

Schematics

Real life diagram

Code

Simple code that works

Credits

Haziq Afandi

Comments

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