[Swansea Hackspace] Drone Nights on Tuesdays

[Peter Barnes]

Justin,

This idea has come up and would be an interesting group project.

There would be a few ways I can immediately think of:


   - Using ultrasonic / proximity sensors to detect that a drone has flown
   through the gate
   - Picking up the RF from the video transmitters and using the signal
   strength to detect the drone

Either of those methods or more could be paired very effectively with
addressable LEDs to create interactive gates.

Other thoughts for gates include:


   - Flexible ducting (aka a tunnel)
   - Hoops
   - EL-Wire (used to mark out a track)

For inspiration check out this video
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhe9eRfBZ74>


Peter

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 2:24 PM, Justin Mitchell <
justin at swansea.hackspace.org.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 2018-02-23 at 13:22 +0000, David Davies-Day wrote:
> > The tubes I currently have are for standard Dual In-line Package, the
> > arduino Uno Atmega328p type chips, They will easily accommodate the
> > LED strings from poundland, I may pick a couple of strings up today.
>
> I do wonder if it would be possible to build a coil into the gates,
> thats either tuned to an rfid frequency, or just some basic induction
> method and used to detect when a drone flies through it.
>
> you could do fancy stuff then like colour changing them and automated
> timing.
>
> just pie in the sky ideas...
>
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