What's up with the RoombaDevTools RooStick?

by Ryan Block, posted May 29th 2006 at 3:04AM

If you take exception to those few but rather arresting posts on hacking your Roomba, perhaps you'll sit up and take notice of the RoombaDevTools RooStick, a USB to mini DIN adapter which can be used to control your favorite innocent little robo-vacuum. Go ahead, make it do bad things, we won't tell.

[Via MAKE: Blog]

Filed under: Household, Robots

Tags: hack, roomba, roombadevtools, roostick

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six2one @ May 29th 2006 5:04AM

this roomba kick kinda came out of nowhere....device hacking at its best!! first roombas...then hdcp on hdmi connections!!! :-)

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james @ May 29th 2006 6:14AM

perhpas i am the only person that thinks this, but who gives a damn if you can control a robot vacume cleaner. more effort should be put into cracking HDCP!!!

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Because it makes for a great robotics platform. if you've hacked it with bluetooth or this chances are it doesnt even have the vacume internals!

if you think this is useless look for the roomba midi project. people do stupid stuff because its fun and entertaining, not because it acomplishes something.

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atrain @ May 29th 2006 8:56AM

you guys been watching arested development again?

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