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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 10
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 10

by Mark Frauenfelder
May 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
190 pages
7h 58m
English
Make: Community
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Roomba Hacks

DON’T LET YOUR ROOMBA JUST COLLECT DUST WHEN YOU CAN HACK, MOD, AND TAKE OVER THE WORLD WITH YOUR OWN (CLEANING) ROBOT ARMY.

By Phillip Torrone & Tod E. Kurt

In May of 2006, iRobot, makers of the Roomba robotic vacuum, announced they had shipped more than 2 million cleaning robots, making Roomba one of the (if not the) most successful domestic robots in history. With 2 million of anything that can be taken apart, it was only a matter of time before dozens of Roomba hacks hit the net.

Courting this audience, iRobot opened up the interface to all current Roomba models, and released an educational version called the Create. With so many ways to hack these suckers, makers responded by building more projects and developing software. Here’s ...

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