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CLUE NRF52840 EXPRESS
Adafruit Industries LLC
Yoga Pose Chime
2024-06-14 | By Adafruit Industries
License: See Original Project Displays LCD / TFT
Courtesy of Adafruit
Guide by John Park
Overview
While practicing Yoga on your own, it can be helpful to use an interval timer to let you know when you have completed a certain pose. While there are myriad apps that offer this functionality that play a sound when the time is right, there is something wonderful about the sound of a physical gong being struck.
This project uses a CLUE board to display poses, proximity control to start your pose timer with the wave of a hand, and a solenoid striker to chime a singing bowl.
Parts
- Adafruit CLUE - nRF52840 Express with Bluetooth LE
- Adafruit DragonTail for micro:bit - Fully Assembled
- Mini Push-Pull Solenoid - 5V
- Half-Size Breadboard with Mounting Holes
- N-channel power MOSFET
- 1N4001 Diode - 10 pack
- 3 x AAA Battery Holder with On/Off Switch and 2-Pin JST
- 4 x AA Battery Holder with On/Off Switch
- Premium Silicone Covered Male-Male Jumper Wires - 200mm x 40
- Alkaline AAA batteries - 3 pack
- Alkaline AA batteries (LR6) - 4 pack
- Hook-up Wire Spool Set - 22AWG Solid Core - 6 x 25 ft
- Little Rubber Bumper Feet - Pack of 4
Singing Bowl
You'll also need a metal singing bowl for the solenoid to strike, such as this one.
Assemble the Pose Chime
The Yoga Pose Chime uses the CLUE to keep track of time spent in a pose, and to trigger the solenoid to ring the pleasant chime when it is complete. The solenoid draws more current at a higher voltage than the CLUE is meant to provide directly, so we'll create a transistor-based circuit to drive the solenoid.
The way the driver circuit works is that a small signal current tells the transistor to open up the flow of a larger current. When it's time to chime, the CLUE will send a 3V signal over pin 2 to the transistor, which opens the floodgate of the full 6V of the four AA batteries, at the much higher amperage needed to drive the solenoid.
For much more info on transistors, check out this excellent guide, Transistors 101.
Breadboarding
Carefully place the Dragon Tail breakout into the breadboard as shown. Pay special attention that the 3V pins are aligned with the left side power rail.
Use jumper wires and the components to build the circuit as shown in the circuit diagram above and the photos here.
You can use two male/male jumper wires to extend and connect the solenoid cable to the board.
NOTE: We're using the right-side power rail for the 6V 4xAA battery pack and must connect only the black ground rails. DO NOT connect the right-side red rail's +6V to the left side's +3V red rail!
Attach Solenoid
One tricky part of this type of build can be how to mount the solenoid to strike the bowl or gong. We're going to use the weight of the battery pack to hold it in place, and it's height for positioning.
Use double-stick foam tape to attach the solenoid to the battery pack as shown. You will want to check the height against the singing bowl for height positioning.
Add CLUE
If you haven't already, plug the CLUE into the Dragon Tail.
Breadboard Mount
Breadboards come with double-stick foam tape already attached to their bottoms. We'll use this to attach the breadboard and the rest of the circuit/CLUE to the battery case as shown.
Remove the protective backing and align the board with the battery pack so they can stand freely, then press and hold them together for ten seconds or so to allow the adhesive to set.
Add Feet
Add the four rubber bumper feet to the bottom as shown. This will give the device some needed friction to prevent it from moving when the solenoid strikes the bowl.
CLUE Power
The 3x AAA battery pack will power the CLUE itself (the 4x AA being used only for the solenoid). Adhere it to the breadboard's double-stick foam tap as shown and then plug it into the JST battery connector on the CLUE.
We'll use the on/off switches on the battery cases to turn on and off the entire device.
Next, we'll code the CLUE in CircuitPython.
CircuitPython on CLUE
CircuitPython is a derivative of MicroPython designed to simplify experimentation and education on low-cost microcontrollers. It makes it easier than ever to get prototyping by requiring no upfront desktop software downloads. Simply copy and edit files on the CIRCUITPY flash drive to iterate.
The following instructions will show you how to install CircuitPython. If you've already installed CircuitPython but are looking to update it or reinstall it, the same steps work for that as well!
Set up CircuitPython Quick Start!
Follow this quick step-by-step for super-fast Python power :)
Download the latest version of CircuitPython for CLUE from circuitpython.org
Click the link above to download the latest version of CircuitPython for the CLUE.
Download and save it to your desktop (or wherever is handy).
Plug your CLUE into your computer using a known-good USB cable.
A lot of people end up using charge-only USB cables and it is very frustrating! So, make sure you have a USB cable you know is good for data sync.
Double-click the Reset button on the top (magenta arrow) on your board, and you will see the NeoPixel RGB LED (green arrow) turn green. If it turns red, check the USB cable, try another USB port, etc. Note: The little red LED next to the USB connector will pulse red. That's ok!
If double-clicking doesn't work the first time, try again. Sometimes it can take a few tries to get the rhythm right!
You will see a new disk drive appear called CLUEBOOT.
Drag the adafruit-circuitpython-clue-etc.uf2 file to CLUEBOOT.
The LED will flash. Then, the CLUEBOOT drive will disappear, and a new disk drive called CIRCUITPY will appear.
If this is the first time, you're installing CircuitPython or you're doing a completely fresh install after erasing the filesystem, you will have two files - boot_out.txt, and code.py, and one folder - lib on your CIRCUITPY drive.
If CircuitPython was already installed, the files present before reloading CircuitPython should still be present on your CIRCUITPY drive. Loading CircuitPython will not create new files if there was already a CircuitPython filesystem present.
That's it, you're done! :)
Code the Yoga Pose Chime in CircuitPython
Text Editor
Adafruit recommends using the Mu editor for editing your CircuitPython code. You can get more info in this guide.
Alternatively, you can use any text editor that saves files.
Installing Project Code
To use with CircuitPython, you need to first install a few libraries, into the lib folder on your CIRCUITPY drive. Then you need to update code.py with the example script.
Thankfully, we can do this in one go. In the example below, click the Download Project Bundle button below to download the necessary libraries and the code.py file in a zip file. Extract the contents of the zip file, open the directory Yoga_Pose_Chime/ and then click on the directory that matches the version of CircuitPython you're using and copy the contents of that directory to your CIRCUITPY drive.
Your CIRCUITPY drive should now look similar to the following image:
Copy Code
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 John Park for Adafruit Industries
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
# Yoga pose timer
# Requires CLUE with solenoid transistor driver circuit
import time
import board
from digitalio import DigitalInOut, Direction
from adafruit_clue import clue
from adafruit_slideshow import SlideShow, PlayBackDirection
pose_time = 30 # choose the time to hold each pose in seconds
solenoid = DigitalInOut(board.D2) # pad #2 on CLUE driving a MOSFET
solenoid.direction = Direction.OUTPUT
solenoid.value = False
def chime(repeat):
for _ in range(repeat):
solenoid.value = True
time.sleep(0.03)
solenoid.value = False
time.sleep(0.25)
slideshow = SlideShow(clue.display, None, folder="/icons", auto_advance=False)
while True:
if clue.proximity > 10:
time.sleep(1)
chime(1)
time.sleep(pose_time)
chime(2)
slideshow.direction = PlayBackDirection.FORWARD
slideshow.advance()
if clue.button_b: # skip ahead
slideshow.direction = PlayBackDirection.FORWARD
slideshow.advance()
if clue.button_a: # skip back
slideshow.direction = PlayBackDirection.BACKWARD
slideshow.advance()
Pose Bitmaps
You'll need to load some compatible bitmap files onto your CIRCUITPY drive. We've included a series of Yoga pose icons from svgrepo.com that are Creative Commons licensed.
To use them, first download the .zip file linked below, and uncompress it. Create a directory on the CLUE's root level called icons. Then, copy a few pose .bmp files into the icons folder.
For information on how to create your own compatible bitmaps, check out the Customization section of the Notification Icons page in this guide.
How to use the Yoga Pose Chime
- Turn on both battery packs first, so the CLUE turns on and the solenoid can be triggered
- You'll begin the first pose timer by waving your hand close to the CLUE's proximity sensor which is mounted right above the screen
- The solenoid triggers once to chime the bowl, signaling the pose can begin
- After 30 seconds (or your chosen interval time) the solenoid will chime twice, signaling the end of the pose
- You can press the B button on the CLUE to skip ahead to a different pose, the A button to go back to a pose
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