Good Vibrations Justin Skanda Bryce Tony

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Good Vibrations
18-549 Group 5 Skanda Mohan, Bryce Aisaka, Tony
Felice, and Justin Beaver Professors Priya
Narasimhan, Rajeev Gandhi, Nik White (TA)
Motivation
Architecture

• Waking up is a painful thing to do
• Most people wake up to loud and aggravating
  noises
• Standard alarm clocks are difficult to travel
  with

• Objective
• Create a silent, portable, comfortable,
  battery-operated, phone-activated vibrating
  pillow cover

Project Evolution
Development Environment
Software Arduino Micro., Android SDK
(Java) Communication Protocol
Bluetooth Hardware
Results
Motrola Droid (Android 2.0.1)
Solarbotics vpm2 vibrating motor
BlueSMiRF Gold
Customer Survey
Number of users who said
AAA batteries

• the pillow was comfortable while handling it
• the pillow was comfortable while lying on it
• they would wake up from the high vibration
  setting
• they would wake up from the medium vibration
  setting
• they would wake up from the low vibration
  setting
• they would prefer to wake up with this product
  instead of how they currently wake up
• they would pay up to 20 to buy this product
• they would pay up to 30 to buy this product
• they would pay more than 30 to buy this product

9/10 10/10 9/10 8/10 2/10 6/10 6/6 2/6 1/6
Arduino Nano
Performance Tests

• Battery life while idle 24 hours
• Battery life while active 65 minutes
• Bluetooth range gt35 feet