[Swansea Hackspace] Roomba robot

[David Davies-Day]

Slap a wifi ip camera on it and make it FPV drivable from the website!


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-------- Original message --------
From: Justin Mitchell <justin at swansea.hackspace.org.uk>
Date:03/04/2017 5:56 PM (GMT+00:00)
To: hackspace at swansea.hackspace.org.uk
Cc:
Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] Roomba robot

On Mon, 2017-04-03 at 16:30 +0000, Aled wrote:
> Anybody want my roomba robot vacuum? I had some plans for it but I
> just don't have the time to fiddle with it, works fine just needs a
> new battery pack and a new brush.
> Has a built in serial port which is easily hackable with an ESP ,
> Arduino or a pi or something similar. I got the docking station for
> it to charge itself, the remote to programme or drive it, and a
> couple of the lighthouse things which give invisible virtual walls to
> contain it.
> It's free to anyone who wants to do something cool with it, either
> that or it'll probably go in the bin.
>

It would be cool to have it running around the hackspace, adding an esp
to plot what its upto on the website. Replacement batteries dont look
too expensive.


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