There are some universal human experiences we don’t talk about much, at least not in public. one of them you’ll have in your own house, as well as such is our reluctance to talk about it, we’ve surrounded it in a fog of euphemisms as well as slang words. Your toilet, lavatory, john, dunny, khazi, bog, or whatever you phone call it, is part of your daily life.
For his Hackaday prize entry, [VijeMiller] tackles his smallest space head-on. You see, for him, the chief horror of the experience lies with the dreaded splashback. Yes, a bit of projectile power discarding leaves the old rump a bit on the moist side. So he’s dealt with the issue with some maker ingenuity as well as installed an Arduino-controlled foam generator that injects a blend of soap as well as glycerin to fill the bowl with a splash-damping tons of foam. Rearward inundation avoided.
The parts listing exposes that the foam is produced by a fish storage tank aerator, triggered by a relay which is driven by an Arduino Uno with a power transistor. A solenoid valve controls the flow, as well as a great deal of vinyl tubing hooks everything together. There is an HC/06 Bluetooth module with an app to manage the gadget from a phone, though while he’s published some Arduino code there is no link to the app. There are a number of pictures, including a cheeky placement of a Jolly Wrencher, as well as a shot of what we can only surmise is a text, as foam overflows around the bathroom. as well as he’s put up the video we’ve put below the break, for a humorous presentation of the gadget in action.
A toilet foamer is new to Hackaday, however we’ve had a few lavatorial jobs before. this with an Arduino saving water, for example, or an auto-flush for a bathroom-trained cat.
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