Why I Built This
I grew up in a village where street lights simply didn't exist. Once the sun went down, the roads turned pitch black — and that wasn't just inconvenient, it was genuinely unsafe. People struggled to move around at night, and I personally ran into this problem more than once myself.
That frustration is what pushed me to build this project. I wanted a low-cost, automated street light system that could turn on when it got dark and turn off when there was enough natural light — without anyone having to manually flip a switch every evening.
Tech Stack
ESP32 – microcontroller handling sensor readings and light control
