Monday, July 19, 2004
Hacked Robot Vaccuum Cleaner: Sux0rs or Rox0rs?
Posted by Pat Logsdon in "HARDWARE" @ 11:00 AM
There are some people in this world who will hack anything. A toaster gets a mini ITX motherboard and becomes ToAsT0r, a plastic cow becomes uDd0r, and a small box turtle in Wisconsin named Mr. Scootums was turned into a (very slow) mobile hotspot using only a wireless AP, a solar panel, and some glue. Ok, I made up the last one, but the point remains that these people are out there, running amuck and frolicking gleefully with unsavory unions of technology and mundane objects.
The latest project in this vein is a hacked Roomba vaccuum. I'm not sure if this makes it r0oMbA now, but the fact remains that it's in the wild now: "It’s got beefed up monitors on its bump switches, cliff sensors, motors, and encoders; it’s got a Virgin Webplayer with a 200MHz Geode CPU, 64MB RAM, and 802.11b attached to it; it’s pulling from a lead-acid battery strapped on the back. It’s the Mad Max of Roomba RoboVacs — it’s got an IP address, and it’s coming to clean your floor." :werenotworthy: :mrgreen:
The latest project in this vein is a hacked Roomba vaccuum. I'm not sure if this makes it r0oMbA now, but the fact remains that it's in the wild now: "It’s got beefed up monitors on its bump switches, cliff sensors, motors, and encoders; it’s got a Virgin Webplayer with a 200MHz Geode CPU, 64MB RAM, and 802.11b attached to it; it’s pulling from a lead-acid battery strapped on the back. It’s the Mad Max of Roomba RoboVacs — it’s got an IP address, and it’s coming to clean your floor." :werenotworthy: :mrgreen:
