http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/29/irobot-create-roomba-hacking-for-the-everyman/ Engadget Comments for iRobot Create: Roomba hacking for the everyman http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/29/irobot-create-roomba-hacking-for-the-everyman/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/29/irobot-create-roomba-hacking-for-the-everyman/Nov 29th 2006 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/29/irobot-create-roomba-hacking-for-the-everyman/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/29/irobot-create-roomba-hacking-for-the-everyman/Nov 29th 2006 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/29/irobot-create-roomba-hacking-for-the-everyman/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/29/irobot-create-roomba-hacking-for-the-everyman/Nov 29th 2006 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/29/irobot-create-roomba-hacking-for-the-everyman/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/29/irobot-create-roomba-hacking-for-the-everyman/Nov 29th 2006 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/29/irobot-create-roomba-hacking-for-the-everyman/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/29/irobot-create-roomba-hacking-for-the-everyman/Nov 29th 2006 6:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/29/irobot-create-roomba-hacking-for-the-everyman/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/29/irobot-create-roomba-hacking-for-the-everyman/Nov 29th 2006 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/29/irobot-create-roomba-hacking-for-the-everyman/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/29/irobot-create-roomba-hacking-for-the-everyman/Nov 29th 2006 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/29/irobot-create-roomba-hacking-for-the-everyman/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/29/irobot-create-roomba-hacking-for-the-everyman/One of the most difficult issues in making the Roomba a general robotics platform is mounting things onto it. Just having those 6-32 mounting holes will help tremendously.

Since this won't be out for several months, if you'd like to get started on hacking Roombas right now, check out my book "Hacking Roomba". You can see some example projects at its website, http://HackingRoomba.com/

One of the projects just completed, Cylon Roomba:
http://hackingroomba.com/2006/11/29/cylon-roomba-they-do-exist/

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Feel free to check out our Roomba Hacking Forum to read about the latest hacking developments.

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Seriously, it's cool as hell that iRobot would release something like this. Seems like it should make perfect sense yet strangely companies never do shit like this. It would be cool if more tech companies would offer up a stripped down version of their hardware for hackers to run wild with. Hell, people might just come up with good ideas that could be reintegrated into the original.]]>Nov 30th 2006 3:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/29/irobot-create-roomba-hacking-for-the-everyman/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/29/irobot-create-roomba-hacking-for-the-everyman/
for those of you that want to use C# or VB.Net with Roomba, I've developed a framework that you can use called the C# RoombaSCI Framework.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/roomba-term/

Its all open source and comes with a C# testing program that enables you to watch communication to & from your Roomba, & test drive Roomba around. Now that iRobot will be providing a cable, its gonna be sweet.

until it comes out though, you can either buy an RS232, USB or wireless interface at http://www.roombadevtools.com/

you can also D/L free versions of Visual Studio here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/

Kevin
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