Let's Get Ready To Roombaaaaaaaa!!!!!
Posted Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:06:56 GMT to Posted in Geek, Programming
So, lately I have been spending some late nights on campus. I mean LATE nights, 1….. 2….. almost 3 in the morning. Have I been spending late nights working on my schoolwork? Ok, you can stop laughing now. No, instead I have been doing some hardware/software hacking with a Roomba. My friend Oliver and I have been busy putting the Roomba together and doing cool stuff with it. Ok, ok, Oliver did most of the hardware work, I just provided ideas and suggestions along the way. End result: A Roomba being controlled using a USB Gamepad over the wireless network in the Computer Science building. Over the break, several individuals from tech support came to take a look at it cause it sounded cool, and we even showed it off to the high school students that showed up at the Open House last Saturday (they also thought it was cool. Right now, we have the movement controlled via one of the analog sticks, though we have a lot of cool ideas (which I am sure I will write about as they are accomplished).
More information (as well as pictures) can be found at Oliver’s site here
Additionally, Make Magazine has already featured it in their Make Blog. How cool is that?
