Line following Roomba

posted Jun 27th 2006 1:00am by Eliot Phillips
filed under: robots hacks

line following roomba

[Ben Miller] came up with a really simple way to turn a Roomba into a line following robot. The Roomba already has four “cliff sensors” built into it. Ben just added a potentiometer to the two outside sensors and then tuned the pots so that the Roomba could detect black tape on the ground. It isn’t your standard line follower, but if you draw a path using two strips of tape the Roomba will gladly stay inside. Here’s a CoralCDN link to the video.

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i think that line following robots can never get old, i remember programming the old lego turtle in logo. very nice!

Posted at 1:39 pm on Jun 27th, 2006 by joe

a good quick, simple hack. i like.

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Posted at 12:31 pm on Jun 28th, 2006 by rly nice man

Very nice. I hope more people submit more Roomba hacks as this is the kind of things I like to seehere at HAD.

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