The Shower Timer
The Shower Timer
The Shower Timer times a person’s shower to make them more conscious about how much water they use.
Abby
The Shower Timer times the length of the user’s shower and is started and stopped by when the user presses the button. At the five, eight, eleven, thirteen, fifteen, and twenty minute marks, the robots will alert the user of how many minutes have passed and will change it’s lights to a different color or to flash. Once the user stops the timer, the robot will round the time to the nearest whole minute and calculate how many gallons of water were used. It then tells the user the time and gallons used, as well as how their time compares to the national average.
This turned out so so good!! I love that you got it to compare your shower time to the national average and your previous times. Great job!!
thank you! It actually doesn’t compare previous times but if I made this an actual product, it would do that and find the average as well!
Recreating what others have tried to do very effectively and efficiently. I like how encouraging the robot is
thanks! I wanted it to be friendly so people would be motivated to reduce their shower times!
The voice really brings it to life!
thanks, I had a lot of fun writing the messages!
Love the eco-friendly idea
thanks, I wanted to use my robot to encourage others to help the planet!
This was a really great and super eco friendly robot to watch!
thank you, I wanted to help people be more eco-friendly in their daily activities!
nice, I would not have though to use the technology like that
thanks, I wanted to make my robot help people be eco-friendly!
It’s really cool you looked into an eco-friendly project, and how you worked to make it an effective way to help people be more mindful of their water usage.
thanks, that was my main goal!
The lights are a great idea with the voice as well
thank you, I thought it would be helpful to include lights if the user was playing music and couldn’t hear the robot saying how many minutes had passed!
Very good idea! It’d be nice to have something like this.
thanks, i wanted to help people like you and myself be more eco-friendly!
This is so great! I like the comparison to the national average
thanks! If it was a real product, I would also want to compare the user’s previous shower times to let them know if they are getting better!
I like how you incorporated the lights, voice, and comparison to national average
thanks, I wanted to make sure the user was aware of their time even if they couldn’t see the lights or hear the voice!
Super cool how the button starts the timer & reads that data!
thanks! Originally I was going to have the user press the button once to turn on the robot and again to start the timer, but it ended up being easier to just make it one button push.
I thought use of data was really impressive and how it was able to measure the gallons of water based on the time.
thanks! If I wanted to make this a real product, I would continue working with data so that the robot could store previous shower times and compare them.
Love the eco-friedly focus of the project!
thanks, I wanted to make users conscious of how much water they use while showering!
This idea is really cool. I like that it tells you how well you are doing relative to the national average.
thanks! In addition to that comparison, I would also wanted it to compare past shower times but couldn’t store that kind of data with this set up.
I think this is really cool and creative!
I definitely need this to keep my shower time in check. Great work!
This is so cool, I love how much information it gives you!
This is so cool and I like how it tells you information about water consumption!
Cool project and very useful!