PolyCast5
Multi-Tool Everything Remote
PolyCast5 is a portable, open-source multi-tool remote to control all your devices wirelessly. It utilizes five different core wireless technologies, all embedded into one easy-to-use device.
Infrared Learning and Replay
Tired of losing all your remotes? PolyCast5 has built-in infrared learning and replay capabilities, allowing you to save all your infrared remotes digitally!
Save it once, then just click on whichever signal to replay at will! All remote entries can also be categorized, named, and edited to your liking.
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Types Like a Person, but Faster
PolyCast5 connects to devices as both a keyboard and media controller.
Your computer just sees a regular, old Bluetooth keyboard. Except it's not. Anything a keyboard can do, PolyCast5 can do, but at 100X the speed.
Insta-Type Anything
Create any custom payload easily using angle brackets and click save. That's it.
To execute it, simply click on the entry in the menu.
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Real-Time Interpretation
Literally just tell it what you want through the built-in microphone and the insta-type payload will be generated and executed on the spot using AI.
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Offline Password Manager
Store and autofill your passwords offline for maximum security while still having the convenience of being able to enter your password in less than 6 seconds.
AI finds the password to autofill but never sees the actual password. More info here.
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Control Your Projects Remotely
PolyCast5 is fully wirelessly compatible to send commands to custom devices such as an Arduino Uno or ESP32 DevKit, all within the easy-to-use Arduino IDE ecosystem.
This is done with the awesome, low-power ESP-NOW technology built into PolyCast5's ESP32-C5 brain. Tutorials available.
This is great for people who want to use their PolyCast5 to control unordinary things like DIY door openers, light switchers, robotic arms, or anything else! Let your imagination run wild.
Turn Home Outlets On/Off
Using PolyCast5's built-in LoRa radio, you can turn on/off home outlets and control projects from over a kilometer away. No connection, no problem.
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Introducing The PolyPlug
How It Works
Simply use your PolyCast5 to send an on/off command to a cheap LoRa-enabled optional addon called a PolyPlug. Then, it will execute the command using its built-in 15A relay.
Why It's Better
- LoRa payloads send instantly.
- Uses 915MHz penetrating frequency.
- The range is over a kilometer.
You Can Also:
- Set schedules
- Set away mode (on/off at random intervals)
- Infinite distance communication via built-in MQTT
- Control your projects from further using the broken-out GPIOs. Tutorials available.
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Expand With GPIO Pins
With the firmware open source, PolyCast5 is also expandable through external hardware. If PolyCast5 is missing a feature you want, you can add it using the broken-out I2C GPIOs.
I2C Terminal
To help with this, PolyCast5 also comes with a built-in communication terminal for sending commands to external hardware. Just click select to send!
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AI Network Analysis
PolyCast5 comes with an AI packet analysis tool to run full and detailed diagnostics on network traffic moving through the space around you at that very instant.
The system prompts are also 100% editable should you ever want to customize them.
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Also great on phones!
Built-in Scanner
You can also run a quick scan on-device to gather the most important information about a given network/its users using hardcoded field filtering and extraction.
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Built-in OTA Updates
With a committed plan to be constantly rolling out new and exciting features/improvements, PolyCast5 is able to update itself wirelessly to the latest and greatest firmware, just like a phone.
This means your PolyCast5 will only improve over time. All you need is a Wi-Fi connection.
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Tools, Games, and More
PolyCast5 also has built-in offline tools to help you throughout the day.
Built-in:
- Bored? We've got Tetris!
- Playing some D&D? Check out the dice roller!
- Can't focus? Use the fully customizable pomodoro timer!
- Fan of crypto? Receive on-chain payments directly with the Bitcoin QR app.
- Can't make a decision? Leave the important things up to fate using the coin flipper.
- Customizable random number generator.
- Plus a built-in SRS memory planner, and more!
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Make It How You Want
In the spirit of customizability (in addition to open-source firmware), PolyCast5 also has a large variety of user settings with more to come.
This way, any user can customize haptic length, RGB lights, brightness, colors, and more!
You Can:
- Change the colors (blue/white -> anything).
- Set a login PIN for device security.
- Change display brightness.
- Adjust device haptics (vibration motor).
- Change the sleep timer/auto-sleep duration.
- See system info/factory reset.
- Much more!
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Like I've mentioned, the PolyCast5 and PolyPlug firmware will indeed be open source! With this, you can always customize your device to your liking.
You can expect the repository to become public after the Kickstarter launch once the first few units have been shipped. In the meantime, you can keep an eye out on GitHub.
Live 3D Model!
Check it out for yourself.
Partners
We would like to give a special thanks to PCBWay for supporting this project throughout our early PCB prototypes and manufacturing. We also look forward to working with PCBWay to manufacture PolyCast5 units for production, so we can ship quickly to all backers.
They've been fantastic and we would highly recommend checking them out for your next project. They have awesome PCB quality, and even offer other services such as 3D printing and CNC machining.
RoboticWorx trusts PCBWay's services in delivering high-quality PCBs to allow us to rapidly prototype our ideas and try new things. We have worked together on open-source projects for over three years and they have always been great. Special thanks to PCBWay!