Project
| # | Title | Team Members | TA | Documents | Sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | Automatic heat source finding laptop cooling pad |
Jifei Xu Xuandong Xu Yuan Yao |
Igor Fedorov | design_document0.document final_paper0.document presentation0.presentation proposal0.pdf |
|
| My team want to build a automatic heat source finding laptop cooling pad. In contrast to traditional cooling pad, it utilizes only one fan for dissipating the heat. It would locate the where the source of the heat located on the laptop and find that position. It then automatically moves the fan to that location. we can add other functions to this pad such as controlling the speed of the fan or adding a remote USB terminal to your compute for you to turn it off or on, and detect the surface temperature of the part where the fan is blowing. We plan on using infrared red remote sensors. There are five sensors on the fan. Top, bottom, left, right, middle. The fan would move towards to the sensor with the highest temperature. If five sensor senses the same temperature or the middle sensor have the highest temperature, the fan would just stay at it's position. The fan is attached to a track. The track can move horizontally and vertically on the track. Data will be gathered from the sensor and sent to a microcontroler to feed back information to whatever interface its connected to. We would like to incorporate the LED key board lamp and the visual indicator of fan speed to our the cooling pad. We would also create a load monitor that can tell the fan to increase its speed preemptively to act as an feed forward control system. |
|||||