Say hello Steve
Okay, that's actually his sock.
Moving on, Steve is a man with sheds, and like any man with sheds he wishes to protect them.
But rather than standing guard 24 hours a day with a handy flamthrower, he built a wireless alarm system.
The system uses IR rangefinders to detect would be shed raiders, as pointed out by the man himself.
The detectors (3 of, one per shed) have analogue outputs which the PIC reads and compares to it's stored values.
If the reading on any input go over it's stored value for more that 10 readings, the PIC "presses" the call button on the radio, causing an annoying bleepy noise to come from the receiving bedside radio. This in turn causes an angry Steve to come running into the garden, chainsaw in hand.
Or something like that...
AH yes! the code!
Tis in assembler, as mister Steve doesn't believe in brackets
This is brilliant work. I've been thinking on a number of ideas over the past few months for my own shed, but this tops them all, and it should be easy to tie into my home burglar alarm system.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing. Love your sense of humor, too.
--Jack
I have dogs and a cat, so PIR sensors would get falsely triggered all the time.
ReplyDeleteI was also keen to catch whoever has been nosing about trying to jemmy the doors, so this "silent" alarm would allow me to peer out the bathroom window to see the person.
Automatically starting an 808 DVR recording is the next project... (Unfortunately they have a IR blocking filter built in, so I can't use IR LEDs to illuminate the s0d without him realising and get a nice close up of his face.
Oh and walkie talkies are powered from old mobile phone chargers.
ReplyDeleteOddly the one I use indoors doesn't like 5V where there should be 3XAA batteries - it periodically beeps to warn of low battery!
A diode in series with the power dropped 0.6V and now it is happy.
very cool idea for a wireless alarm but kinda expensive and bulky. FM transmitters are very easy to build and can be very small and can easily throw a few hundred feet witch is more than enough to cover most properties and can be hidden in the door or window add a small solar cell and it can be completely self contained
ReplyDeleteThe walkie talkies were kicking about and never used, the sensors were second hand and free, the phone chargers were from old phones that aren't used any more.
ReplyDeleteThe PIC looks at 3 analogue inputs - one going to each shed door (they are adjoining). The cable used to go to the other 2 doors is the white cat5 you can see, again was laying around.
Total cost to me was really about £1 for the PIC
There is a bent paperclip on the board for pulling down one more input - this looks at the current ADC values for each channel and saves them to EEPROM. On power up these are read, and a safety margin of 10 added, then these are used as the thresholds to decide if the alarm is triggered on each of the analogue inputs.
It was as someone said a bit of a hack, from stuff laying about, rather than a polished project. I didn't expect anyone else would be interested in it! Cheers for the comments though. :o)
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