This is the long overdue update of the house project conceptualized a while back with my kids. In this project, a model house was wired for simple lighting using LED's.
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| The USB home |
Each part or room in the model house will be lit by a dedicated LED and each LED will be directly connected to the pins of the microcontroller, in this case, the Arduino Uno.
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| The Arduino Uno wired using a recycled IDE cable |
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| The Arduino being wired |
The Arduino will act as a hardware controller/driver to power up the LED's but commands will come from a PC. This whole architecture can be ported to a real, full sized house and control is not limited to lighting only but for the purposes of demonstration, the model house should be sufficient to illustrate.
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| The GUI in a Windows PC |
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| The GUI showing the check boxes and sliders as control inputs |
The model home is connected to the PC via the USB port. The Uno will function as a slave unit with the PC as the master. If a user clicks on the GUI, the corresponding LED will light up (or toggle off) in the actual model home. This therefore illustrates how a real USB controlled home can be made possible.
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