https://github.com/evancohen/bidet
DIY IoT Bidet - Because why doesn't this already exist?
https://github.com/evancohen/bidet
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DIY IoT Bidet - Because why doesn't this already exist?
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/evancohen/bidet
- Owner: evancohen
- License: apache-2.0
- Created: 2020-04-08T00:08:53.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2020-04-09T19:13:29.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-12-29T09:42:43.071Z (about 1 year ago)
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- Size: 36.1 KB
- Stars: 6
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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# 🚽 bidet 💦
> DIY IoT Bidet - Because why doesn't this already exist?
In mid-March (when 🧻 was nowhere to be found) I joked with friends that "it's time to invest in bidet stocks!" Fast forward a month later and TP is still in short supply. With all of this free time self-isolating, I began thinking: "why not build my own bidet?" And thus, another horrible internet of things project was born...
## Butt what should it be able to do?
- [ ] **📱 Mobile App Remote** - a locally hosted PWA to provide users with a streamlined butt washing UX
(it doesn't exist if it doesn't have an app)
- [ ] **🎛 Pressure control** - everyone has their prefrence, precision pressure control is important
- [ ] **🚿 Spray control** - adjust spray size/dispursion
- [ ] **💗 Pulseation** - varying water pressure because that sounds nice
- [ ] **🌊 Oscillation** - widen the cleaning area
- [ ] **🔥 Heat control** - not sure I want to deal with heat coils, but it's on the list!
- [ ] **📈 Usage metrics** - log your toilet time and monitor water usage
- [ ] **🚻 ButtID™** - uniquely identify the user (by weight?) and load their presets
- [ ] **💬 Voice interaction** - don't be touching things
- [ ] **🚽 Auto-Flush** - Flush the toilet automaticlly after use
- [ ] **🔰 Yellow-mellow mode** - thinking yellow to be green
- [ ] **🚽 Auto-Open/Close** - Open on approach. Also maybe it could open and close the lid like a mouth and talk to you like a friend oh god i'm so lonely. Also maybe do foot direction detection to lift the lid and seat?
- [ ] **🎶 Auto play music** - nobody wants to hear you in the bathroom. What better time to get turnt?
- [ ] **💦 Auto moisten** - when you sit down it wets the sides so 💩 don't stick
- [ ] **🎯 X/Y/(Z?)** - precision wand placement for 100% accuracy (not trying to soak those cheeks)
- [ ] **👍 Commemorative sticker** - prints out a sticker with "certified clean on dd/mm/YYYY"
- [ ] **🥒 Vegan** - that's right, it's totally vegan!
... more soon!
> 💡 Have an idea that you don't see here? Share it with me:
> Twitter: [@_evnc](https://twitter.com/_evnc)
> Email: bidet@evancohen.io
## Things to research
I've never built a bidet before. The closest thing that I have experience with, at least conceptually, is an emergency add-on to my sump pump that I built when it broke (story for antother time). Basiclly I have no idea what I'm doing or where to start, but that's what makes for the best projects!
### Approach
Always do the hardest thing first! I could build out the entire mobile app and a lot of the circuitry first, but those are the things I already know how to do... I'm going to tackle the plumbing first. Starting with, how does a bidet work?