Tiny Motion Detection Alarm Does The Trick

If you have mischievous children or forgetful elderly in your life, you might want to build a couple of these tiny motion detection alarms to help keep them out of harm’s way. Maybe you want to keep yourself out of the cookie jar. We say good for you.

But you could always put one of these alarms on a window, a drawer, or anything else you don’t want opened or moved. The MPU6050 3-axis IMU makes sure that any way the chosen item gets jostled, that alarm is going off.

As you may have guessed, there isn’t much more to this build — the brain is a Seeed Xiao ESP32-C3, and there’s a buzzer, a battery, a switch, and a push button to program it.

The cool thing about using an ESP32-C3 is that [gokux] can use these for other things, like performing a task when motion is detected. If you do want to build yourself a couple of these, here are step-by-step instructions.

If you’d rather detect motion in the vicinity, here’s a PIR-based solution.

6 thoughts on “Tiny Motion Detection Alarm Does The Trick

  1. Looks like a nice project. I try to get the most battery life out of my ESP projects by doing things like turning the wifi off, using deep sleep, and even lowering the clock rate to 20mhz or less if you don’t need much processing power.

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