For the final project, I tried to incorporate as many processes as possible that I learned during Fab Academy to demonstrate my competence and aid in the creation of my project for my lab. I also wanted to demonstrate to our students how many processes can be used to create an integrated project. The processes used were:
I created a people counter for our FabLab at school. I get many questions from administration and interested outside parties about the attendance and usage of our lab. This is a natural question with the investment in capital for the FabLab. I decided a visual people counter would clarify any questions that anyone had about usage for our lab. We have a main entrance that all visitors would enter through to use the lab that I illustrated during Week 2 for Computer-Aided Design
This is what my final project looked like after my completed project was installed. It looks very similar to the illustrated 3D model I created in Week 2.
My project counts visitors as they enter the lab but does not count them as they leave. It displays the number of visitors on the LED panels with a scrolling welcome message. It has been very helpful to those who ask how many people have visited the lab plus I can talk with students about all the various processes used to create the counter.
I worked on my final project during the following weeks: I laid out the project in Week 2 and made a sensor during Week 11. You can see my project development on the project development page.
FabLab People
Counter by Matthew Gerber is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Based
on a work at http://archive.fabacademy.org/archives/2016/fablablccc/students/46/w17.html.
The Bill of Materials for this project are as follows:
