Heat making you miserable? It's really tricky to get comfortable or sleep if you're sweaty and hot. If you don't have access to air conditioning or you're trying to save money, learn a valuable trick to keep cool.
IT'S A FAN! BUT NOT YOUR REGULAR ONE!
With a bit of imagination, fans can make a real difference.
There's plenty of skepticism around the effectiveness of standing fans and their window-mounted equivalents – but if you pay attention to the positioning and set-up of your fan situation, you'll get a lot more mileage out of these machines.
While getting trapped working, you could forget to adjust the speed of the fan depending on how far you are from it. If you are too close to the fan and it blows heavily, you could end up with a terrible headache and a big electricity bill. On the flip side, it would be useless if you move too far away and the speed of the fan is too low. To make sure you get the proper ventilation, the speed of the machine would increase proportionally with the distance between you and the sensor.
Also, while working in a factory, the workers need to have proper ventilation, but as they're moving constantly, the speed of the fan has to be continuously changing in the way mentioned above.
Zoos and circuses would find our small project a perfect fit for the cages of the animals during hot summer days.
Our project is all about monitoring the distance between the person and the sensor, while adapting the speed of a DC motor, controlled by a driver (L293D). A fan is attached to the end of the motor.
Once started, a Python server runs continuously on the Raspberry Pi 4 that hosts a website on which an user can turn on or off the fan.
As you can see, the website also shows the distance between the user and the sensor. Even though you stick close to the ultrasonic sensor, the fan doesn't stop, but it works at a very low speed, in order to still provide ventilation.
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