Roomba rover
Writte by Eliot Phillips the 31/12/1969
Filed under: robots hacks
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[heathkit] and a friend built this rover a couple years ago. They picked up a first generation
Roomba because it had all of the features they were looking for: a good bump sensor, low profile, wheel
encoders. Before removing the brains of the vacuum they put it in debug mode and figured out the control
pinout. After wiring in a PIC they had rudimentary control of the device. For some higher
level processing power they attached a Virgin Webplayer (defunct internet appliance). The
Webplayer has a mini-pci slot so they added a WiFi card. Now they can transmit
video and SSH into the device for full control.
