Short
This was my graduation project: I built a smart clothespin that notifies the user when the laundry is dry or when rain is comming.
Facts
| type | Graduation Project Creative Technology |
| built for | InterOne GmbH |
| owner | Albert |
| state | finished (since July 2016) |
Description
For my graduation project I developed a Smart Clothespin: a clothespin that is aware of its weather circumstances and that can sense whether the laundry it holds is dry. When it senses rain or other kinds of bad weather, it alarms the user through a push notification to a smartphone.
Development
I did research on various topics concerning this device: methods for detecting the dryness of laundry and for detecting bad weather. From there, I did various experiments for determining the best method for sensing the moisture in laundry. Meanwhile, I kept an eye on the required user experiences in order to keep the threshold as low a possible.
Result
The final prototype consists of three parts: the actual device (the clothespin), a cloud service and a smartphone application.
