May 2006
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
6h 55m
English
Take a tour into the underground robotic relentlessness of Roomba hacks, robots in the streets of Austin, and robot cockfighting.

Roomba wars!
Photograph by Scott Beale, Laughing Squid / laughingsquid.com
It all started out innocently enough. iRobot recently opened up their Roomba vacuum for hackers, tinkerers, and makers to send control signals via a little hidden port (irobot.com/hacker). On Makezine.com (makezine.com/blog), we posted how to control your Roomba with a serial cable or a Bluetooth computer, and all was well in the world. But you simply cannot have robots under human control; ...
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