Utilizing The Drive to open a door

Within the Star Wars Universe, the Jedi and Sith use The Drive for battle and mayhem. However in the true world, folks would use The Drive for way more mundane on a regular basis duties. Obi Wan even does this within the prequel trilogy when he closes a door utilizing the pressure. Star Wars fanatic Nick O’Hara leveraged an Arduino to copy that trick.

Regardless of his needs, O’Hara lacks the midochlorians to truly wield The Drive. However he has know-how and that’s nearly nearly as good. Automated doorways are already a factor, however they conveniently open anytime somebody walks up—whether or not or not they possess The Drive. O’Hara needed his door to solely open when he waves his hand. To perform that, he wanted two issues: some strategy to acknowledge the hand wave gesture and a technique for opening the door.

The door in query is sort of heavy, however O’Hara had a beefy motor with a gearbox to extend the torque. That pulls the door open by reeling in a wire by way of a pulley. An Arduino Uno controls the motor by means of a driver board. It receives the command to open the door from a Raspberry Pi working gesture recognition software program. The Raspberry Pi seems to be in entrance of the door by means of a webcam and sends the open command to the Arduino when it sees O’Hara wave his hand. It isn’t fairly The Drive, however it’s as shut as one can get in our universe.