Baby Sleeping Soother

For this project I am using the LittleBits smart home kit to design a prototype that would solve the problem of parents not getting enough sleep because they have to wake up multiple times at night to soothe their baby.

My idea was to design a baby sleeping soother that would sensor the sound of a baby crying and if it did it would turn on the lights in the room where the baby’s at and starts playing music automatically. The whole process of connecting all parts together went surprisingly well; however, we are unable to actually turn off the lights in a room because the lights aren’t connected to the AC adapter.

While developing the prototype a question can across my mind, “Does this product already exist? If it does exist how can I compete with it?” The problem I have encounter during this project is that this kit has limited functions for designing the prototype; therefore, I have to design the prototype around the kit in the end. In the future what I might do differently is try to understand the material I have and are able to use before I start designing my prototype.

“How do we know what we prototyped is the best solution for our client?” To solve this problem I would do research on the market and on the overall interest or taste of my client, then draw out all my ideas and delete the ones that I thought was bad. Then from all of the good ideas I have left, I’ll try to combine them and all their qualities into one design. After that I would, conduct a usability testing to see how the users respond to the product. And improve on the parts that the users don’t agree with.

When I saw the video of Google’s Nest smart home device, I thought, “Is there really a safe ground in the Internet that people could trust and put their private information in?” Even though having a product that could access your light controls, heater, alarm, and even door or password would be really convenient but thinking it in another way we are giving a gigantic amount of private information to a company that we ourselves aren’t even sure what they might do in the future. Even though Google can guarantee the users a safety policy, but that doesn’t mean that hackers would be so nice to follow the private policy. There is always a way to crack the code. Moreover, no one actually controls the Internet. It is basically an open source that everyone could access to; it’s just how deep you could dive into the ocean of information.