Roombas with UAV Brains Play Pac-Man

posted Nov 10th 2009 6:53am by
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[Jack], [Cory], and [Maciej] are playing Pac-Man with Roombas on a lab floor. The Roombas are outfitted with ALIX3d2 single board computers running Gentoo and a software suite developed for UAVs at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles. The hardware and software sections are quite in-depth and make for a good read.



9 Responses to Roombas with UAV Brains Play Pac-Man

  • monkeyslayer56 says:

    sweet if i had the money and the space to do that i soooo would :D

  • chicosoft says:

    became a very expensive game… lol

  • rockethacker says:

    yeah, yeah, but what about the warps on the sides of the map? (-;

  • Bit Mage says:

    You should mention the earlier article about Pac-man using a roomba and some LEDs.
    http://hackaday.com/2008/06/03/roomba-pac-man/

  • Pacman FTW says:

    Ghosts are aware of other ghosts during play… but your Pac-man isn’t aware of the ghosts position when you hit reset.. Right at the very end of your video Pac-man gives the cold shoulder hit to one of the ghosts. If only that were intentional, pac-man would be a badass, but I don’t think it was.

  • Neko says:

    Apart from gentoo, it’s a pretty cool project.

  • asdf32.exe says:

    Wow, its been a while since i’ve had a ferocious smirk on my face while reading an article on hack a day. Nicely done.

  • DanAdamKOF says:

    rockethater I was wondering the same thing.

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