Week 11 (14 to 20/10/2012)

For this week, since I have done the proposal presentation, I was trying to finish up my proposal report. I still haven't finish the budget section and conclusion section so I decided to do them this week.

Conclusion

Automatics Temperature Controlled Fan Speed using ARDUINO will be developed to change the fan speed automatically based on the surrounding temperature. This device will be more useful than a regular fan because the functionality of it is more convenient compared to a regular fan. If this project is being developed for human use, it can save more energy while function more automatically when it is compared to air conditioner and regular fan.

Also, the Arduino microcontroller has been used for the programming of the fan to generate the PWM output with varying duty cycle for the DC motor. For personal use, this project will be useful to cool the laptop or PC from overheating. It can function as a ‘smart fan’ for laptop or PC since it can adjusts its fan speed automatically according to the temperature. If the laptop gets too hot, the fan speed will be increased and once the laptop cools down, the fan speed will return to normal. So this project works best in a small scale to cool off the electronic equipments or machines.