http://www.crazyorgenius.com/articles/2006/02/28/lets-get-ready-to-roombaaaaaaaa en-us 40 When You Are Right 90% Of The Time, Why Quible Over The Remaining 3%? <p>So, lately I have been spending some late nights on campus. I mean <span class="caps">LATE</span> nights, 1&#8230;.. 2&#8230;.. 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 <a href="http://racon.net">Oliver</a> 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 <span class="caps">USB</span> 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).</p> <p>More information (as well as pictures) can be found at <a href="http://racon.net/news/roomba_hacking">Oliver&#8217;s site here</a></p> <p>Additionally, Make Magazine has <a href="http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/02/roomba_hacking_gamepad_control.html">already featured it in their Make Blog</a>. How cool is that?</p> Tue, 28 Feb 2006 01:06:56 +0100 urn:uuid:3a9a8b159bffb71472a9e29aebdcd489 Sean http://www.crazyorgenius.com/articles/2006/02/28/lets-get-ready-to-roombaaaaaaaa Geek Programming http://www.crazyorgenius.com/articles/trackback/69