Kotaku: roomba

Dustbusting Blinky's Got Pac-Roomba on the Run

Owen Good — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:00:00 MST

Roomba Pac-Man? Done before, but mostly as a cosmetic enhancement. Here it's taken to the next level - five Roombas (~~Roombi?~~ Roombae, thanks Greentrace) engaged in a contest of Pac-Man with programmed "chase" and "escape" AI.

Roomba Pac-Man [site, via RipTen]

Wii Roomba: Surf Your Way to Cleaner Floors

Owen Good — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:00:00 MDT

This gentleman, "Ron" Tajima has managed a Balance Board hack that manages to defeat the basic purpose of a Roomba's existence. But, it's awesome. He's used the Wii Balance Board's Bluetooth capability to link it with the poky-slow vacuum-cleaning robot. He steers the Roomba by the direction he leans.

The things that are balls-to-the-wall awesome about this video:
• Sped up assembly footage. See? It's simple.
• Crappy kung-fu movie audio — with mismatched soundtrack.
• The beep-beep-beep "Surfin' USA" tone. Please tell me that's coming from the Roomba itself.

I won't be able to get that out of my head the rest of the day. A jorb well done, "Ron" Tajima!

Wii Balance Board Roomba Hack Cleans Up [Balance Board Blog]

Clips: Wii-Controlled Roomba

Brian Crecente — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 17:00:54 MST

Chris Huges spend way too much time with his Roomba, but the end result of this unholy relationship is a snazzy and totally unnecessary way to control your robot vacuuming Roomba. Brian Crecente

Roomba [Spaz Out, via Engadget]

Roomba Frogger Makes Me Sad

Brian Crecente — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:00:50 MST

The Make Magazine folk took a Roomba vaccum cleaner and turned it into a Roomba Frogger. They slapped the white vaccum cleaner in a green t-shirt and then created arm, legs and eyes with paper cups.

After making it look like a giant squashed frog, they hacked it to make it controllable with a laptop and then took turns rolling it across Sixth Street around traffic.

It died under the wheels of a 4Runner. Poor Roomba Frogger, it never had a chance.

Roomba Takes Frogger to the Asphalt Jungle [Cnet]

Best prices on Roomba robots [Shopping.com]