Smart Parents x TTN

[loleg]

Every parent knows the challenge of encouraging kids to clean up their rooms, not to mention the many of us who struggle to find the motivation to clear out our own spaces at home or work. With younger kids the main issue is picking things up off the floor, and a lovely motivator is the vacuum cleaner, with the (mild yet understandable) threat of small things being sucked into it's dusty innards.

Image via Instructables

Along the lines of this hackernoon post, the challenge is to prototype a connected device for Smart Parents which activates robot vacuum cleaners like the Xiaomi models through TTN as an alternative to the cloud-automation (IFTTT) approach in the article. Then either a countdown timer or a push-button could be used to indicate that the room is ready for cleaning.

Ways to engage with this challenge:

• If you are a parent, or are compassionate to the (admittedly 1st-world) cause, thumbs up! :+1:
• If you have experience with this kind of project, share some tips! :star:
• If you have a robotic vacuum cleaner, bring it to MakeZurich so we can hack it! :building_construction:
• If you have time and a soldering iron, build your own DIY vacuum robot! :robot:
• If you want to work on this, join the team and let's prototype :hammer_and_wrench:

Wenn de Roboter chonnt ond du hesch de Bode nöd ufgrummt, denn hesch en "Sauschtress". --C.S.

[loleg]

@honcheng @cesnietor thanks for your inspiring prior art!