Unit 61 Interactive media design

Nintendo board Clock 

It meets the rational of the brief as it uses recycled electronic parts to then design a product that is useful for the consumer.
With this designed product the parts and pieces can easily be replaced or fixed if broken without having to throw away the parts and if so will used recycled parts again keeping the circle going.
I don't know if it uses a battery or not but it could easily be redesigned to use one like most clocks do.
I like how its something that is so simple and not anything too complicated to make but uses the parts in a great way. I would maybe add a few interactive extras like a setting of an alarm to wake you up.

Portable charging station

This product doesn't meet the full rational of the brief  but it can be redesigned to do so.
It could be designed on the inside to use batteries to charge the devices or be plated with solar panels to charge the devices with batteries to store charge.


Bin Recycle Censor

So my idea is a box with a censor inside which can then be hooked onto the inside of a bin. Now when something is thrown into the bin it is noticed by the censor and it triggers off audio clip reminding the person to recycle.

I wanted to keep the design nice and simple, just a box what can hook onto the bin and the lid to be placed on top to keep it in place. Then all of the components on the inside like the on and off switch, battery compartment, arduino, speakers and the censor.
There would be cut open parts on the box for the censer to pop out to work and also another on at the top for the speaker.

The aim of this is to spread the awareness of recycling not only for what people would expect of cardboard, paper, plastic and cans but also E-Waste. As these can be set on pretty much the majority of bins everywhere outside or inside people would hear them quite often and with the mixed messages reminding to recycle various things it would slowly drum itself into peoples heads and they would just do it.

Equipment list

• 9v Battery
• 47K Resister
• Slide switch
• Speaker
• Motion detector
• Breadboard 

Design Research
There are many different types of bins out there with there own size and shape. Most bins though are round or square.
Taking this into thought i could make 2 different designs for each of the bins, making one design curved and the other just a box.

But the better way would be made one design to fit both shaped bins using a hinge to bend the box. Then larger versions could be made for bigger bins.

Something very useful that could be added to the design to link to the lids of bins that open. I was looking at break switches in alarmed doors. That could be great to only turn on the device when opened to be able to make the battery last longer.
This could also be built into bins to be sold as a whole as well as the device which could be useful for bins for the government to place around cities.

TEST CIRCUIT RECORDING

MY CIRCUIT

This is my drawn up circuit with the motion detector and the speaker.
I couldn't test this out on the software used above as it didn't have those two pieces of equipment.
that is why i drew it, so i researched the extra symbols to add in for the speaker/buzzer.
I couldn't find a symbol for a motion detector so i designed two symbols of my own to represent it.














PROTOTYPE

Legal and Ethical issues

I cant see there being any legal problems with this device other than if the was a contract for it to be built into government bins.

Ethically i think its great, The device can be made out of recyclable plastic  and the component inside can easily be accessed and replaced with recycled pieces. The device also saves battery with the breaker circuit and even when they go they can be replaced and recycled.
Even after all that the device reminds you to recycle every time you chuck something into the bin.