Designing a product to help with productivity

For my University’s Physical Prototyping class (DECO1013), my group and I were tasked with designing a product prototype tackling the challenge of productivity.

After discovering promising research into the effect of lighting on people and their environments, we set out on creating a product that aims to increase the productivity of our users, primarily in office spaces with poor lighting, or people looking to control lighting in home office/work environments.

After researching existing solutions at the time, we found that most were either permanent lighting solutions, mood lights that cycle through a range of colours, or limited to certain environments, whereas research found that people often change workplaces.

To solve these issues, we have created a two part portable lighting system consisting of a light and a controller, and able to be customised throughout an approximate light temperature range of 2000 -7000K, as well as a range of colours as seen on the colour wheel.

This prototype uses 2 Arduino boards connected via Bluetooth, with one acting as the controller, and one the programmable light. The light can be manipulated by moving the controller, which utilises a gyroscope to detect when it has been turned around or flipped.

The light can be set from cool to warm colours, or set on a rainbow scale. We 3D printed a chassis for the prototype, making it a very visual and hands on prototype to get the point of the device across.

Created by Daniel Lee, Ray Hwang, and Dominic Musolino for DECO1013 Physical Prototyping.