People Counter

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PROPOSAL: People Counter would track how many people are in the space for occupancy safety monitoring.

Proposals to improve Noisebridge. Edit

Culteejen Proposal

Proposal for y'all:

As mentioned before, I wanted to create an app that can show people if / how many people in the space. I whipped up the server side stuff tonight (I tested it on my bot channel) to demonstrate what it would look like.
I'm thinking there would be something like a button you would press at the space to increment / decrement the number, and it would update the number on the server
screenshot prototype

It's an entry panel kiosk, with a quick (and, hopefully, intuitive) workflow to answer "entering/leaving, how many people, for how long, which rooms" questions
a few custom PCBs, the pads are captouch (the heart board is a TTP229 breakout)
runs on ESP8266/32, I have MicroPython firmware written for everything except the actual "send data somewhere" part because I never defined the API I'd be interacting with
but it reads buttons and processes them according to the planned UX flow
it's A4-sized and 3mm, designed to be easily cuttable on a K40. also, designed to collect anonymous data, of course
so if such a workflow would help you, I can publish the non-yet-published design files and code, and mail the assembled&tested custom PCBs I have
I've designed this to be helpful to other hackerspaces, it's just that I've never gotten to actually getting my shit together and publishing it all
lasercut button box prototype picture