A movie that has a "flight function" by remodeling a cleaning robot

The Roomba, which has become synonymous with cleaning robots, can handle a few steps, but it can't climb stairs or steps. However, if a cleaning robot could fly in the sky like a drone, it would be easier to clean the house, so a fierce man who added a flight function to the cleaning robot has appeared. increase.

A Roomba that CAN FLY!-YouTube

Mr. Peter Chappell, who runs the YouTube channel PeterSripol, wants to create a flying robot vacuum cleaner.

Bought a robot vacuum on Amazon for a friend who lives in an overly dirty room.

Anker's robot vacuum cleaner arrived.

If you try it, it will detect steps accurately, so you won't fall down the stairs.

If you try to hide the sensor part on the back of the robot vacuum cleaner with tape...

I fell down the stairs.

If the sensor is exposed, the stairs and downstairs cannot be cleaned, and if the sensor is hidden, the robot will roll down the stairs, so multiple floors can be cleaned with a single robot vacuum. almost impossible to do.

I thought, but suddenly the rotor started to turn...

A slightly stout, drone-like object appears.

Wow, a robot vacuum cleaner is flying in the sky. Mr. Chappell's friends also have a look of 'What a mess!'

As for how to make this flying robot vacuum cleaner, first prepare a robot vacuum cleaner that can be modified. A cheap and light plastic one seems to be good.

Draw a line on the top with a white pen...

Remove the bumper on the side of the robot vacuum.

Then attach the rotors to the three sides.

I drew the lines with a white pen to install the rotors evenly.

Furthermore, a board is installed to control the three rotors.

The battery is external. At the prototype stage, a huge rectangular parallelepiped held by a man is used as a battery.

Turn on the drone parts right away...

I'll give it a shot. However, at first, the robot vacuum cleaner just floats off the floor and cannot fly stably like a drone.

So cut something like a styrene board...

Creating a handmade rudder. I attached it to the rotor part together with the rudder servo.

The rudder servo is glued to the side of the cleaning robot.

And flight test again.

By adding a rudder, the operation is quite stable, and it is possible to fly firmly.

In addition, we have successfully landed a cleaning robot on the desk.

Now that the robot vacuum cleaner with flight function is completed, we will throw a party and show off our self-made robot vacuum cleaner to our friends.

The flight function completely overcomes the problem of stairs.

Some of my friends are having a blast watching a flying robot vacuum cleaner. Apparently he also wanted a cleaning robot to clean multiple floors.

It wasn't just "flying", it was also able to clean the garbage properly. In a few years, it may be natural for robot vacuum cleaners to fly in the sky...