Build log — indoor AI drone

An indoor drone that knows where it is, where you are, and when to talk.

Raspberry Pi 5 · Hailo-10H (40 TOPS) · UWB positioning · Portal 2 aesthetic. Built from scratch and documented in full.

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coming at launch

Build Progress

Phase 1 ⬜ Upcoming

Voice Pipeline

Wake word → speech-to-text → Claude Haiku → TTS. The drone can hold a conversation before it can fly.

Phase 2 ⬜ Upcoming

UWB Positioning

9-node Nooploop array. Room-to-room tracking at centimetre resolution.

Phase 3 ⬜ Upcoming

First Flight

Bare frame hovers indoors. Prop guards on. Fail reel included.

Phase 4 ⬜ Upcoming

Autonomous Navigation

SLAM + UWB fusion. Navigates room-to-room without a pilot.

Phase 5 ⬜ Upcoming

Full Integration

Shell, personality, Home Assistant, security features. The complete system.

All code is open source

PX4 configs, Python scripts, STL files. Everything is on GitHub under MIT license.

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