Lava Lamp

For my ECE Senior Design project my team made an improved Lava Lamp and we won the “Most Marketable Project” Award! Here is a link to the project.

The basic idea is that traditional lava lamps are:

• Slow to heat up and slow to begin “lava-ing”
• Dangerous when left on for too long
• Not very interactive

Our Improved Lava Lamp Fixes this by:

• Using a set of heating resistors on a metal plate to heat the lamp faster
• Using temperature sensors and regulating the temperature to safe levels
• Adding Button-Selectable Multi-color LEDs

You can see a time-lapse of a traditional Lava Lamp as well as our Improved version below. The action starts at 0:55 in the first video and about 0:10 or so in the second. Both videos are played at x50 speed.