For those of us lucky enough to own a Roomba, it makes taking care of dust in your house a breeze — but it could be better. Which is why [Marcel] spent his weekend upgrading his Roomba — or should we say, Doomba.
He started out with modest intentions. What’s stopping his Roomba from going a bit faster? He was pretty sure he could crank up the output a little bit. Donning his white lab coat and safety glasses, he set out do upgrade this little bot into something much more formidable.
12 hours later he slipped back into a conscious reality. Not only had he upgraded his Roomba, he had turned it into a mini war machine — the Doomba.
The upgraded bot features a UE BoomBox allowing him to play Flight of the Valkeries as he descends on his helpless dust-mite prey. Remote control features are now accessible using a Playstation 2 wireless dongle and Arduino. A Raspberry Pi allows for webcam recording and WiFi capabilities — specifically for the remote triggering of tasks. He even threw on a bank of capacitors in a hacky fix to prevent brownouts from the SPI port.
As long as Roombas have been around, people have been modifying them to suit other purposes — heck, even the company Roomba itself released a hackable version!
I’m sure it’s giving every dust mite in his house nightmares
Shock and Awe.
Soooo. Does it vacuum better??
I just don’t know what to say about this project. But the video on [Marcel]’s previous blog entry sure wowed me, and I don’t even watch Dragon Ball Z:
http://www.marcelvarallo.com/home-made-holographic-display/
Thought that was worth sharing. I’m going to check out some more of his stuff now.
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Soooo. Does it vacuum better??
Well no, but it does it with a lot more Panache!
Add a UV blub on the bottom and we are one step closer to the FUTURE!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpFUrjq8nWE
“even the company Roomba itself”
Oh, ooohhh, can I finally correct a hackaday article?
Can I finally, officially become a wanky shithead on hackaday?
Um, (cought), the company’s called iRobot, you dorks!
Snerk snerk.