Wednesday, May 24, 2017

TV Remote Incorporating Drone Mobility (Quadrotor)

What more could a couch-potato ask for - your wife put the remote on the other end table and you want to get it without moving. How about a voice-command that it can respond to and fly to you?

Come on Makers. I think this one's easy.

Here's how to go about it :


  1. Create an Alexa skill (ok, maybe Raspberry Pi is good enough) so Alexa can tell the remote (over WiFi or Bluetooth, etc - maybe WiFi using the Particle Photon is the way to go)
  2. Then, hack the remote - needs rechargeable battery, and the drone board with the quadrotor.
  3. This requires a few mechanical hacks - you needs the buttons of the remote control on one side, with some extensible standoffs that telescope out so the buttons aren't on the table - unless you think that's okay. 
  4. You also need to be able to flip the thing over using these actuators in case the thing has been put on the surface with the rotor-side down.
  5. You need the rotors to be deployed only when needed - else it's non aesthetic..
  6. You need a charging station that the drone can go to - autonomously would be nice :)

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