Project 2

For project 2 the aim is to create an interface which gets people to be more aware of power consumption. For this over the holidays we were tasked with keeping an energy usage diary.

 I monitored my laptop and used a power monitor device to measure it's voltage, wattage, price etc. I found that while plugged in charging but not turned on it is still using a very tiny amount of energy. When turned to the max settings, playing games I found that over the period of one hour my laptop used a total of 10c worth of energy, about 0.1 KW/h. If I was to do this everyday for 10 hours the cost would rapidly begin to rise and my parents would not be happy.