Quadcopter Charge Notifier using Particle Photon

2 Jan 2016

I received my first quadcopter for Christmas, a XS Nano Quad from Revell. It’s a tiny quadcopter, which I find extremely fun to play with. Unfortunately, the battery lasts only about 5 minutes (3.7V 100mAh) and the charge time is between 30 and 40 minutes.
Because I regularly forget I put it to charge, I decided to make a simple device which can notify me as soon as the battery is fully charged, allowing me to maximise play time!

Using a Particle Photon and a photoresistor, changes in light intensity from the charge indicator LED can be measured and used to trigger a notification via the IFTTT service.

As usual, all details including code are available on my blog: Quadcopter Charge Notifier using Particle Photon – Frederick Vandenbosch

Let me know what you think! What would you use such a notification system for?

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mcb1 over 9 years ago

That's a great non invasive method of checking and notifying.

I'm sure it has many other applications, especially for small toys.

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mcb1 over 9 years ago

That's a great non invasive method of checking and notifying.

I'm sure it has many other applications, especially for small toys.

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fvan over 9 years ago in reply to mcb1

This approach could be used with anything having an indicator LED for status. It may not be the best solution, but the goal was, as you said, to be non-invasive.
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