Custom PCBs to process sensor data and send it over UART

Image of overall sensor

Satellite board that reads sensors and drives LEDs

Annotated satellite board

Sensor board

Sensing demonstration

Project Summary

  • Category: Infrared sensing, PCB Design
  • Completion date: December 2021
  • Technologies: Infrared sensing, STM32 Microcontrollers, UART, WS2812 LEDs

Details

Reactive light system that illuminates 512 RGB LEDs around any object on the staircase. Uses 11 STM32 microcontrollers communicating over UART to process readings from 64 infrared sensors. Each of the 512 RGB LEDs is individually addressable. Modular, PCB-based system is modular to allow for simple expansion or application to other use cases.

Source code is on Github and more details on Hackster