AirBox

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  An AirBox

Inspiration

Meet the digital native generation - always online, on their phone, "on-the-go" as a life style. But often, the vital services like food delivery are still not supporting it. For example, when you receive a parcel from your favourite web shop you will need to be at home in order to get the delivery of your goods. Otherwise, neighbours have to take care of it. That's annoying! You will need to go and ask for the parcel, but also the post man might have to ring at multiple doors to find a temporary destination for your parcel.

What it does

Provide a place to receive goods of any kind, let it be your latest online order, food from a local farmer or a cake baked by your grandma.

How we built it

Step 1: Buy material from Bauhaus

Step 2: Assembly box and connect electronics

Step 3: Buy more material from Bauhaus

Step 4: Solder parts together

Step 5: Integrate Software

Challenges we ran into

Killed a battery, a relay and a micro-controller. (Maybe we should learn electronic logic better...)

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Being able to open and close the box remotely

What we learned

Using a 12V solenoid with an Arduino-like micro-controller. Connect it to the cloud and learn to combine offline and online world.

What's next for AirBox

• Building contracts between peers on a blockchain
• Add wheels to the box and let it find its receiver

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