Roomba 4000 Teardown Ready For Your Doomba Build

In addition to getting a haircut, [Dino] spent his week editing an old video of him tearing down a Roomba 4000. These robots can be picked up for just a few dollars on eBay, making them one of the cheapest bodged up robotics dev platforms available.

After [Dino] goes over how to unscrew the cover and disassemble the Roomba 4000, he goes over the layout of the motherboard and takes a look at the sensors. The wheels on the Roomba are actually very neat pieces of technology with a very cool planetary gear system that is the perfect drive system for your next robot build.

There are a ton of ways to use the electronics in Roombas for a few interesting robotics projects. [Dino] built 2/3rds of a all terrain rocker bogie robot – just like the Curiosity rover – out of a Roomba, and a small two wheeled indoor robot using a Parallax Propeller. If you’re a redditor there’s always the possibility of building a Doomba, but we think [Patrick] has a better idea than a knife strapped to a vacuum cleaner.

As always, [Dino]’s vidia after the break.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsOUcEPVSkM&w=470]

3 thoughts on “Roomba 4000 Teardown Ready For Your Doomba Build

  1. Back in my days as an electronics parts salseman, some jabroni came in and wanted a new power supply for one of these, but we didn’t have any that had the same barrel connector type for his. So he bought a new female connector, and payed me to swap out the old one so he could have his Roomba charged up and working that day. Anyway, I got inside it and found it to be very cool

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