Here I am, more or less a year later....a new project I'm going to share with you.
The project short description could be something like "Remote shipment pickcup system".
In other words, I need solve a problem: I need a way to receive couriers shipments when I'm away from home. So what I did is to create a system to interact with my doorbell :-).
When the courier pushes my doorbell, a phone call is placed to my cell phone. Then, I'm able to connect to the system (The-Box-O) through a data connection and do the following things:
- open a door/mailbox/gate while you can follow what happen with a webcam
- remotely read with a scanner the shipment number
- print a receipt
Here below some pictures to show you some details:
This is the box, containing the project.
Under the hood....you can see a Raspberry PI and an Arduino.
The attached barcode reader, with a 3D printed case
The thermal printer, printing the receipt
The I/O interfaces, to control microswithes and external servos.
The parts list is essentially the following:
- Raspberry PI
- Arduino (in this case a Seeeduino with a GSM Module. http://www.seeedstudio.com)
- mini Thermal Printer (http://www.adafruit.com)
- USB barcode reader (http://www.adafruit.com)
- Wifi dongle for the Raspberry PI
- two relays(http://www.seeedstudio.com) in order to power servos and the barcode reader only when needed
- a breadboard
- a webcam
- a web application to remotely interact with the The-BOX-O
- arduino firmware to place calls, print receipts, control servos and microswitches
- a script to control the barcode reader
Stay tuned...
