PV-Pix is a slum community co-design of self-powered deformable smart messaging materials for inter-home connections. Each PV-Pix element consists of a deformable energy harvesting material that, when actuated by a person in one home, changes its physical state both there and in a connected home. PV-Pix includes two forms of prototypes one uses rigid materials (TiltTile) and the other flexible ones (FabricOn).
See the toolkit website and research project website for more details and related work.
By using the following step-by-step process you can build your own PV-Pix or you can reproduce our work.
*Dye Sensitised Solar Cell (DSSC) fabrication
*Hardware design
*CAD design
*Bill of materials
*Software code
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE and file for details.
The PV-Pix fabrication guide, electronics, prototype designs, MSP430FR5969 Ultra-Low-Power Microcontroller code, Arduino code are all released.
- FitLab
- Specific
- Swansea University
- EPSRC