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Bose Volume Control Pod Remote Control

Guy Reading
June 27, 2018

Executive Summary

A stepper motor that is coupled to the Bose Volume Control Pod wheel, where you can remotely control the stepper motor to adjust volume. The stepper motor was controlled by an Arduino, which itself took volume up & down IR commands from a TV remote.

Video Description

The Work

The project was undertaken in two parts:

  1. Identifying which buttons you'd like to map to volume up & volume down & finding out their HEX key that your specific remote control sends ("finding_out_codes").
  2. Mapping the vol up and vol down hex keys to the stepper motor clockwise and anti-clockwise movement ("remote control").
These two tasks use different arduino codes, which can be found here.
Hardware:
  • Nema 17 Stepper Motor
  • KY-022 Infrared IR Sensor