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Case 11: Smart Lamps for Basketball Courts

Introduction


  • In the city, there are places for citizens to exercise, such as basketball courts. Whenever it is night, the basketball court will always turn on the lights, thus, we can make a smart lighting that will automatically turn on the lights when it detects that someone is moving on the basketball court, otherwise it will automatically turn off the lights.

Function


  • Light on the lamps if there are people on the basketball courts and turn off the lamps if there is no one there.

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Hardware Connection


Connect the yellow led to P1 port on IoT:bit.

Software Program


Click "Advanced" in the MakeCode drawer to see more choices.

For programming, we need to add a package: click "Extensions" at the bottom of the MakeCode drawer and search with "iot-environment-kit" in the dialogue box to download it.

Notice: If you met a tip indicating that some codebases would be deleted due to incompatibility, you may continue as the tips say or create a new project in the menu.

Program


Judge the sound level, if the value is over the threshold, program to light on the LED; or program to turn off it.

Link: https://makecode.microbit.org/_VrMF7Da1uAib

Result


  • If the sound level is over the threshold, it means there are people on the courts, program to light on the leds; or program to turn off the lights.