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Day: September 16, 2004

Put The Roomba Robotic Vacuum In Test Mode

September 16, 2004 by Phillip Torrone 1 Comment

roomba

those handy dandy robotic vacuum’s from irobot have a secret “hardware check mode” where you can test out all it’s functions to see if something has gone wrong with it, or

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