Final Project Conceptualization
Project Proposal Project Planning
Back at home, I have always been obsess with modifying of my home old flourencense ceiling lights; with replacement of ready made LED lights from the neighbourhood hardware shop for the simplest reason of brighter lighting and electricity efficiency. But normally this ready made light are not programmable and does not come with remote control.
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Then again, I always seem to have so many old remote control that is still working fine but the equipment had already broken down and discarded in the junk yard. This give me an idea of wanted to recycle these old IR remote control (transmitter circuit) and build my own (receiver circuit) to control all the LED lighting. At the same time, I was wondering whether I could even control my LED lighting using my mobile phone that equipped with IR as remote.
I browsed the final project sites of previous batches of student, various youtube channels, and instructable websites to find for ideas and references to my potential final project. While at the same time, I am also looking at what I needed most currently.
DIY Laptop Stand cum LED Lamp with IR Remote control
After bought a ceiling light from China that came with remote control to change the light intensity and 2-colours (Cool daylight and warm light), and looking at my old laptop stand (purchased off the shelf years ago) which I no longer utilized for it is too small for my HP Envy 15 TS. The idea of making my DIY laptop stand that equip with Remote conrol LED light spun off. One challenge that I will certainly be facing is my knowledge of electronic- which is still stucked at stone-age of Integrated Circuit Era. Since graduated uiversity more than a decade ago, the most complicated electrical stuff I ever did was changing my home lighting. In short, I have absolutely zero knowledge about surface mount component and not very sure whether can I get those onto the copper pads of the PCB that I am going to learn to create. I can only hope to be able to acquire enough knowledge of electronic and practical skills through lectures that are yet to come in the following weeks.