Advanced Roomba Hacking

[Bozo Erectus]

I thought this was my idea then I did a little googling and found that theres lots of Roomba hacking out there. My question is for the techy posters here: What cool things could you do with a standard Roomba? I was thinking of something like a robotic sentry.

Edit: for those who dont know what a Roomba is:

http://www.sharperimage.com/us/en/c...a&cm_pla=Roomba Vacuums-Feature&cm_ite=roomba

 

[SanPellegrino]

No sorry, I don't know what a Roomba is and the link doesn't work for me. can you post the picture?

 

[carlosMM]

it is a vacuum cleaning robot.

from what I hear you spend as much time and effort cleaning up so it doesn't get stuck as you would atually spend vacuuming.

 

[Lozzy_Ozzy]

Kinda stolen from TS3 but o' well. You could make an auto sucking action robot "once you've tried me, you will never go back to doing it yourself" . .

 

[Aphex_Twin]

I don't know about you, but I'd add a few lights and beepers to it and call it R2D2

Or I'd run a current through it, spin it and shrink it to about 1/10^30 of it's size to turn it into a Kerr-Newman black hole

 

[SanPellegrino]

ah, I see. My former GF worked in an emergency ambulance, from her tales I know what single men will do with that thing ...

 

[Lozzy_Ozzy]

I don't! I was just making a joke!

 

[Bozo Erectus]

can you post the picture?

Come on everybody, where are all the Roomba robot killing machine ideas? Anyway, heres a pic:

 

[SanPellegrino]

I don't! I was just making a joke!

I didn't mean your post, just that I get what a Roomba is.

But you see, you already got that idea and there are guys out there who won't let it rest with that.

 

[Aphex_Twin]

I can only think of the fascinating applications this might have for quantum chromodynamics

 

[~Corsair#01~]

Call that a rhomphaia? THIS is a rhomphaia:

I'll get my coat.

 

[nonconformist]

Oooh, this reminds me of a joke

At an international surgeon's conference, a rather arrogant British surgeon is walking, and he overhears part of a conversation between an Asian, and an African surgeon.
"I tell you, it is Wooma"
"No, no! It is Awooomber for sure"
So the British man intervenes and says
"Excuse me chaps-I believe the term you're looking for is 'Womb'"
As he walks off, the Asian on turns to his colleague and says
"I don't care what he says-I ber he has never heard a hippo fart in water".

 

[Lozzy_Ozzy]

How about putting a black hole in the hoover bag (or whatevers inside it) and then make it have way more sucking power . The rest is just logical.

 

[Aphex_Twin]

How about putting a black hole in the hoover bag (or whatevers inside it) and then make it have way more sucking power . The rest is just logical.

Or better yet get a few supermassive neutron rings spinning close to the speed of light, which would create a warped enough space-time that could vaccum just about anything. And thus the question arises: to an outside observer will it seem that the Roomba is vacuuming the carpet or that the carpet is vacuuming into Roomba?

 

[Scuffer]

Or better yet get a few supermassive neutron rings spinning close to the speed of light, which would create a warped enough space-time that could vaccum just about anything. And thus the question arises: to an outside observer will it seem that the Roomba is vacuuming the carpet or that the carpet is vacuuming into Roomba?

I don't know - my best idea was to get to fetch beer from the fridge during some sport

 

[Skyline]

How about adding a corvet engine and using it to drive to work? Finding a parking spot would be no issue!

 

[romelus]

"saddamba" modification

1. feed toxic gas into powered on roomba, hopefully that vaccum is powerful enough to keep most of the payload inside

2. send roomba into victim's room, lock victim's room

3. remotely power off roomba's vaccum

 

[Xen]

@BE/DP- I guess if you had the inclination, you could tape a taser onto it or somthing

 

[viper275]

Get the remote control for the roomba, and try to trip people with it.

 

[Taliesin]

If you got a few, you could program them to hunt neighbourhood pets in wolf packs. I wonder what a cat would do if it saw six little robots trundling strategically along, hemming it in from different directions. Hunter-killer Roombas! Then you might hold competitions to see who could program the best cat-catching strategy. (In case Birdjaguar is reading this, you could do it to dogs too.)