RoombaMidi hack makes your Roomba dance and sing

by Paul Miller, posted May 25th 2006 at 10:45PM

Sure, Roomba cockfights are a real hoot, but how about giving your robo vac a chance at a little bit of artistic expression? RoombaMidi aims to do just that, allowing your Roomba to light up, emit musical tones and move to the groove, all from MIDI commands sent from a hardware or software keyboard. The software can support up to 16 roombas, so we're looking forward to some Roomba symphony action. You'll want to throw together that Bluetooth control hack to give Roomba real freedom of expression, but after that it doesn't seem like there's much trouble in setting up RoombaMidi control, and you can even use the software as a mere remote if you're not feeling like a song. Be sure to check the vid for Roomba's interpretation of the Mario theme.

[Via Music Thing

Filed under: Robots

Tags: midi, roomba, roombamidi, video

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Coolty @ May 26th 2006 2:42AM

OMG I have to try this with my roomba!

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hoopty @ May 26th 2006 3:03AM

OMG that ish is retarded!

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Gary Henery @ May 26th 2006 7:10AM

Why?

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Anthony @ May 26th 2006 9:21AM

Sure, I'll spend hours looking @ new Korea-only phone releases & I have both a Roomba & a Scooba, but I can't think of any reason why this Roomba hacking thing is going on. I want my carpets & floors clean- not to see a Roomba out dance me on the cha-cha.

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Professor Moneybags @ May 26th 2006 2:54PM

The very spirit of engadget is one of invention and ingenuity. If we don't push the envelope and encourage our brothers and sisters to do the same, then we are doomed to be force fed "inventiveness" from global-mega-corps

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