Lost something? Let the drone find it.
Over-engineered/No. 01
The problem
I put things down and they disappear, usually in a room small enough that this shouldn't be possible.
The normal fix
Keep the room tidy.
But where's the fun in that?
The over-engineered fix
A drone that searches the room, finds the item, and sends me two photos.
- SearchIt takes off and slowly turns in place, scanning the room.
- SpotA detector, trained on photos of my item, checks every frame.
- SnapIt sends me two photos: a wide one of the room, and a close one of the item.
- LandIt lands. I go get it.
The tech
- Drone
- Tello EDU
- Code
- Python + DJITelloPy
- Vision
- YOLO, fine-tuned on about 100 photos of the item
- Photos
- Frames saved from the drone's video stream