{"id":8943,"date":"2014-08-10T22:48:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T02:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/?p=8943"},"modified":"2014-08-10T22:48:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T02:48:23","slug":"autonomous-fire-extinguisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/autonomous-fire-extinguisher\/","title":{"rendered":"Autonomous fire extinguisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trevor Slaton and Dawn Xiang, students from Cornell University, designed this <a href=\"http:\/\/people.ece.cornell.edu\/land\/courses\/ece4760\/FinalProjects\/f2013\/tms245_dzx3\/tms245_dzx3\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>autonomous fire extinguisher<\/strong><\/a> that is capable of detecting fires through photo sensors and aiming a water nozzle along two axes to extinguish the fires. Their prototype can detect and extinguish candle fires from about 1 ft. away. Their system uses two servo motors to control the vertical and horizontal position of the water nozzle and a water pump to send out a burst of water from the nozzle. The ATmega1284p microcontroller is used to control the pump as well as the servos.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8944\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=8944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8944\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8944\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8944\" alt=\"Autonomous fire extinguisher\" src=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/candlefire.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/candlefire.jpg 580w, https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/candlefire-550x385.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8944\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Autonomous fire extinguisher<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trevor Slaton and Dawn Xiang, students from Cornell University, designed this autonomous fire extinguisher that is capable of detecting fires through photo sensors and aiming a water nozzle along two axes to extinguish the fires. Their prototype can detect and extinguish candle fires from about 1 ft. away. Their system uses two servo motors to control the vertical and horizontal position of the water nozzle and a water pump to send out a burst of water from the nozzle. The ATmega1284p microcontroller is used to control the pump as well as the servos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avr-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8946,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943\/revisions\/8946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}