UVtector

The Project

It is a prototype that detects the UV intensity and emits lights of different colors depending on how much radiation it detects, emitting a sound if it reaches dangerous levels.

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Hardware
Health
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Environment

Team Comments

We chose to make this project because...

Because Lima, our city, has one of the highest UV indexes in the world, at around 11 (between very high and extremely high).

What we found difficult and how we worked it out

We had to buy the sensor because the school didn't had one, and we didn't know how to make the conversion from the sensor's output voltage to mW/cm^2 (the numbers didn't fit). In the end, we used a pre-existing library from GitHub to make the conversion from us.

Next time, we would...

Initiate the building of the project/prototype earlier, because we were informed about coolest projects during late march. Besides, we could have covered the hardware in a fancier way.

About the team

  • Peru

Team members

  • Joaquin
  • Doménico

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