This is my "Interactive Garden Path" design [Design = Scenario, Object, Behavior]. It's design intent is to replace the disruptive flood lights that flash on at 3 am in the morning when someone is simply trying to enter from the side and back of the house as silently as possible not to disturb someone sleeping. Floodlights and the blind startled person or people are now more susceptible to making noise by tripping over obstacles and slipping in unfamiliar terrain of the side path at night. But without the Interactive Garden Path, entering your property silently, efficiently, safely and clearly and uneventfully is almost impossible as you combat the elements or blinding lights potentially waking up the neighbors, obstacles make path finding at night potentially very dangerous and new or uneven grounds make the Interactive Garden Path so applicable.
The Interactive Garden Path solves this by utilizing multiple sensors, timers and dim glow faerie lights to represent the safest path to be guided by that turn on as you near the sensors and turn off when you pass them. This allows you to silently enter the back of your house, in the early hours of the morning without hurting yourself, blinding the neighbors with driveway security lights and it also saves on energy.
The lights also have the capability to be further developed to have different coloured lights along the path to represent differences in the path, like yellow lights may represent warning spots along the path and red lights may represent precarious or new obstacles or dangerous places or perhaps when you have strayed off the path the lights go red. the green lights may represent safe segments along the path.
Further possibilities also include the possibility that the final set of low dim guiding lights may also trigger a flashing light in a persons bedroom or in the main bedroom/living room to show that the Interactive Garden Path has been used and either a flatmate, partner, friend or spouse may now be home or entering so that if any noises were heard there would not be any need to panic or be startled/scared. This would make the design a human to human interactive communication interface that is silent, hands-free and intuitive.
I configured the wiring so that it is essentially an extension lead with a sensor adapted in the middle of it so that everything connected to the extension lead will be on a sensor, so the faerie lights were modified to only nine working lights using solder and thin wires and then plugged into the end of my modified sensor extension lead which is then reactive to the motion and light sensors.
This design saves money, energy, efficiency and makes life more simple and stress free. The design allows people or the users to behave in a stress free, well guided and intuitive manner when dazed and confused and just wanting to get into bed at home without any dramas while walking in the dark of night - down the side of the house. There should probably be an override switch at both ends of the lighting system but for the sake of a model mock up and preliminary designs it hasn't been implemented yet.
Design Evolution: + Magnetic Pendulum ---> Luck ---> Fortune Telling
+ Cyborg Eye ---> Notifying Warning Light ---> Safety and Education
+ Duck Hunting Toy ---> Educational Game
+ Lizard Heat Pad ---> Only heats where the lizard lays and glows red.
+ Boat Warning Light ---> Night Fishing ---> Safety
+ Interactive Garden Pathway ---> Path Lighting and Finding ---> Safety, Way Finding and Leading, Directional Lighting, Energy Saving, Increased Awareness, Effortless, intuitive, seamless and simple.
Model Materials: Foam-core, Copper- Insulated Wires, terminal blocks, plugs, connections and tape, motion sensors, LED and faerie lights.
Helping midnight decision making, way finding/path finding and increased guidance and notification, safety, intuitive interfaces, info lighting capabilities and furthered human to human interactions. This is particularly applicable to notify the person already at home that you are home or entering without the flood lights waking them and ruining a nights sleep or scaring them into thinking someone random is entering your property. ENJOY!!!
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