Lock Box

Overview

We all have had that awkward situation when you need to open that locked box to get your staffs but suddenly realize that you forget where you put the key at. Our objective is to make a box that will be opened by your eyes. The user would press a button to enter the password, then a light would blink and take the state of both eyes (one might be closed, the other open), then the light would flash again and the state of both eyes would be taken again, then repeat again. The code would compare the three readings and compare them to the accepted code and either unlock the box or remain locked.

Team Members

Yuanxiao Gao
Samuel Hoff
TA: Mo Wu

Objectives

Create a box that can detect the state of users' eyes and based on their state of their eyes, ether unlock or remain locked. This includes detecting face and facial features having a customizable code like blinks and having a lock on the box which is controlled raspberry pi.

The main goals of this project are to:
1. Detect the state of an eye (open or closed).

2. Make a box that can unlock from a signal from the raspberry pi.

3. Allow the passcode to be altered

Challenges

Detecting a face and its features.

Transferring the code to a raspberry pi.

Connecting the camera to a raspberry pi.

Writing code to reset the passcode.

Fitting everything needed into the box.

Finding a proper power supply.

Budget

Raspberry pi
Camera
LEDs
3-D printing
Locking relay