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Roomba

Roomba 04/10/2004 02:05 PM
0.11 released

Roomba 0.12

Roomba 0.12 04/28/2004 11:49 AM
Room booking software for hotels.

Roomba Discovery

Roomba Discovery 07/12/2004 07:39 AM

Oh hey, new Roomba! The Roomba Discovery is being pre-sold "exclusively [to] current Roomba owners" at the moment, but includes some much-needed improvements, like a self-charging Home Base which the Roomba will head to, automatically, when done cleaning (finally!), an "intense cleaning" feature (presumably detecting areas that need multiple passes, and a dust bin that's 3 times larger. Sounds like an all-around improvement, so good on them. The Discovery is currently being sold on the iRobot Store site for $250.
R ead - Product Page [NewRoomba]

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I lust for a Roomba

I lust for a Roomba 02/10/2004 01:28 PM
I'm just listening to Helen Greiner's presentation of Roomba. She actually has one that she is running on the table, and the #etech -channel is filled with geeks declaring their instant love at the tiny little home robot.

Can't say I'm much different.

I seriously, seriously want one. Like now.

Update: Joi snapped a photo of me, relaxing outside :-)

Update2: I'm now a bit less enthusiastic. IRobot does in addition build the PackBot, which is a military bot. We were shown a cool video in which the PackBot? is thrown in through a window to a building, drives off the roof, and drives directly into a river; surviving all this stuff. It was apparently used during the Afghan war as well. It's just a matter of time before they strap it with guns.

Revenge of the Roomba

Revenge of the Roomba 07/13/2004 03:41 PM
The profesor sent us this about the new and improved Roomba robot vacuum cleaner: iRobot yesterday announced some new versions of our Roomba line of robotic vacuums. Cool new features include a recharging docking station and a dirt sensor, in addition to many changes to make it a more solid product. For more details see the iRobot press release. According to their website, the new version also includes a bigger dust bin that holds three times as much as the old Roomba. I've also heard that Roomba hackers may find some interesting new changes inside too. But can it still be used to deliver beer?

Roomba Gets Overhaul

Roomba Gets Overhaul 07/13/2004 02:02 PM
Extreme Tech Jul 13 2004 5:46PM GMT

Back-door your Roomba

Back-door your Roomba 05/07/2004 03:35 AM
PT sez, "This week's "how to" article from Engadget shows how to put the Roomba Robot Vacuum in hardware check mode. This is a useful mode for Roomba hackers (and anyone else) to test the functions of the unit as well as see how the unit works, test the 'virtual walls,' clean specific parts and have some fun."

Pressing the L button for the 5th time (you'll hear 5 beeps) will put the Roomba in "bulldozer" mode, in other words it'll just roll forward no matter what, the sensors and bumpers and picking it up will not stop it. Be careful, don't let the Roomba damage you or itself.

Link (Thanks, PT!)

Roomba customer support

Roomba customer support 07/02/2004 04:35 PM
We have a Roomba at home to sweet our floor while we're out (it's really noisy). Yes, from iRobot makers of the "next step in unmanned tactical mobile robots". In other words: They are makers of robotic killing machines! Anyway, one of the evil cats ate the power supply some time ago, so it hasn't gotten much use lately. (Her cats, I usually say when they do things like that) I sent them an email through their online email form...

SmartCarpet Roomba Killer

SmartCarpet Roomba Killer 06/17/2005 06:15 PM

Foreign companies Vorwerk and Infineon are furthering the process of making Americans even more lazy. Research into the popular robot vacuum, Roomba, has shown the inefficiency of being able to cover all parts of the carpet. These foreigners are developing a robotic vacuum that interacts with RFID chips imbedded into the carpet. The robot uses the RFID transmission information to decipher whether or not it has actually covered all areas of the carpet.

Intelligent Robot Vacuum [Ohgizmo.com]

Roomba is Sucking up Christmas Dollars

Roomba is Sucking up Christmas Dollars 12/19/2004 03:41 PM
A new CNET article notes that the iRobot Roomba is a hot item among Christmas shoppers this season. Best Buy claims it's the most popular gift item at their stores this year and the Roomba 4100 has also recently reached the number four position on Amazon's Housewares top sellers list (it has since dropped to position six). The San Mateo Daily Journal recently picked the Roomba as number six on its list of the top ten holiday gadgets. So you better watch out, Santa may be bringing you an autonomous robot vacuum cleaner this year.

Hack-Friendly Roomba Scheduler

Hack-Friendly Roomba Scheduler 06/24/2005 04:01 PM

CNET News.com gets freaked out when we link to their stories and use their pictures, so thank god iRobot has a picture of their new Roomba Scheduler on their site already. The Schedular is pretty similar to the Discovery, except it includes a timer function that can be set to activate the robot on a schedule (hence...). It's sort of an obvious, if welcome, upgrade, so the additional news that iRobot will be encouraging tinkerers to hack in additional features into this model is great. A Roomba with a camera is cool, but I think it's time somebody figured out how to make a Roomba that's smart enough to not eat cords.

Catalog Page [iRobot]
Trick out your Roomba [News.com]

Trilobite Vs. Roomba: The Mystery
Revealed

Trilobite Vs. Roomba: The Mystery
Revealed 06/01/2004 01:53 PM

Ever wonder why the Trilobite 2.0 robotic vacuum is about $1,800 when you can get a good ol' American Roomba for as low as $160? Turns out, it's because the Roomba is, as robots are judged, pretty dumb. One of I4U's readers with a degree in human computer interaction and artificial intelligence wrote a nice piece about some of the major differences between the two robot vacuums, which he compares to the difference between a "Trabant versus a Rolls." Unfortunately, without one of them fancy AI degrees, the Roomba is the one I can afford.
Read [I4U]

Two Timing Roomba Discovery Reviews

Two Timing Roomba Discovery Reviews 07/15/2004 06:58 AM

< img src="http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/images/roomba_discovery.jpg" alt="roomba_discovery.jpg image" width="200" height="200" class="borderyes" border="0" align="right" vspace="5" hspace="15"/>We're going to give this New York Times' Circuits section review of the new Roomba Discovery a passing grade, if only because author William Grimes (oh ho ho) talks about torturing robots. It's good to know that when robots rise up against their fleshy masters, we'll all be able to blame Circuits. The new Discovery does well enough -- it's clearly an improvement over the previous generations -- but its still, ultimately, an expensive distraction to getting real cleaning done. And that's why I love it.

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Roomba Discover vs Sharper Image eVac

Roomba Discover vs Sharper Image eVac 08/10/2004 10:18 AM
Everyday Robots has posted a comparison of the Roomba Discovery and Sharper Image eVac robot vacuum cleaners. It's primarily a consumer-oriented review on points such as suction power and carpet types rather than more interesting things like hackability. But if you're thinking about buying a robot vacuum for its intended purpose, this could be a helpful review.

Car hacking

Car hacking 12/19/2004 03:40 PM
Race for the Ultimate Car Hacks By Michelle Deli People have been tinkering with their cars since the first horseless buggy hit the road. Now, thanks to onboard computerized systems that control everything from engine management systems to radios, hackers can customize their rides in ways that are likely to have Henry Ford doing back flips in his grave. Feeding this need for speed with aftermarket computer chips and simple upgraded components gneerates $25 million…

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Who's hacking who?

Who's hacking who? 07/11/2004 06:20 PM
Macleans Online Jul 11 2004 9:28PM GMT

GIF Hacking

GIF Hacking 09/08/2004 12:27 PM

Common knowledge says that modifying a compressed image is a bad idea. Not always, though.

Hacking Mac OS X

Hacking Mac OS X 03/28/2005 03:16 PM

Hacking Text

Hacking Text 05/10/2004 04:21 PM

CNET posts an inter esting New York Times article about a group of European researchers who have found ways to 'un-black' blacked out text in documents like those released by the government in recent months by using a process-of-elimination technique to figure out what words fit under the obscured area.

The researchers showed their software at the conference, called Eurocrypt, by analyzing a presidential briefing memorandum released in April to the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks. After analyzing the document, they said they had high confidence the word "Egyptian" had been blacked out in a passage describing the source of an intelligence report stating that Osama Bin Ladin was planning an attack in the United States.

Via BoingBoing.

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Hacking the planet

Hacking the planet 08/05/2004 02:23 PM

Hacking An Election

Hacking An Election 02/10/2004 02:41 AM
Nothing particularly new here if you've been following the whole issue on problems with electronic voting machines, but Salon has a fairly comprehensive piece describing the concerns of those who want to stop current voting machines from being used in elections. It describes some of the not-quite-so-secure techniques Diebold used to "secure" their machines - including leaving the necessary password out in the open. It also talks about how comments in the source code of the Diebold machines make it clear that the engineers knew that parts of the software don't work, and yet it was still used in elections. The responses from those who defend the electronic voting systems are a bit scary, as they basically ignore the point. Instead, they talk about how other voting methods have problems as well, and how difficult or expensive it would be to fix these voting machines. Whoever said democracy was supposed to be cheap? Update: Whoops. A new report says electronic voting machines in North Carolina lost 436 ballots last year.

Hacking Crusoe

Hacking Crusoe 02/10/2004 02:44 AM
RWT is running an serious of articles by an anonymous author who has done an impressive job of reverse engineering many of the technical details of Transmeta's Code Morphine Software and the VLIW hardware at the core of Crusoe.

Is Hacking Ethical

Is Hacking Ethical 05/13/2004 09:40 AM

Law Against Internet Hacking

Law Against Internet Hacking 08/30/2004 08:01 AM
Hankooki Aug 30 2004 12:08PM GMT

Hardware Hacking

Hardware Hacking 04/23/2004 01:31 PM

- Law Against Internet Hacking

- Law Against Internet Hacking 08/30/2004 08:01 AM
Hankooki Aug 30 2004 12:28PM GMT

Wi-Fi hacking, a primer

Wi-Fi hacking, a primer 08/13/2004 09:18 AM

""Hacking" Revisited"

""Hacking" Revisited" 02/13/2004 02:37 PM

Google hacking

Google hacking 02/15/2004 11:32 PM
Information Highways Feb 16 2004 3:47AM GMT

Hardware Hacking In The WSJ

Hardware Hacking In The WSJ 09/08/2004 10:35 AM

Hacking the Hotel TV

Hacking the Hotel TV 09/24/2004 05:40 PM
How to get your video from their TV

Hacking the RoboSapien

Hacking the RoboSapien 09/19/2004 02:15 AM

Features: Hacking XML

Features: Hacking XML 09/15/2004 07:42 PM
Among author Mike Fitzgerald's favorite hacks in XML Hacks are two that use SP, James Clark's free, open-source SGML-parser package. The first hack shows how to convert a minimally tagged document to well-formed XML. The second shows how to convert a Wiki format to XML via SGML and SP tools.

Embracing the Art of Hacking

Embracing the Art of Hacking 05/19/2004 04:42 AM
If you can avoid some of the tedious bits, Paul Graham has some good points to make about the relationship between art and coding. Michelle Delio reviews Hackers and Painters.

No medals for hacking

No medals for hacking 08/22/2004 11:17 PM
USA Today Aug 23 2004 3:14AM GMT

Hacking Idol

Hacking Idol 05/17/2004 02:54 PM

It's great to finally hear someone talk about phone phreaking and other attempts to subvert American Idol voting. Just last week I was trolling the web looking for web-to-SMS gateways to see if one could write a bot to vote-spam an American Idol contestant. To hear that folks are using automated dialers to shut out voters seems even more obvious. They should probably just make the voting a 900 number, at say, 50 cents a vote, in order to limit hackery but people could still simply jam the lines with DoS attacks using dialers.

Hacking: A history

Hacking: A history 04/12/2005 03:46 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Mon Apr 11, 08:41 am GMT

Social Hacking

Social Hacking 06/05/2005 10:46 PM
While I'm really glad that smart people like Tim O'Reilly and Chris Anderson are enjoying t-shirt media hack, I'm realizing that the really terrifying thing is that everybody in my social circle knows what Goatse is. But Tim's right, of course. The only thing bloggers love as much as a...

Man charged with hacking

Man charged with hacking 07/23/2004 11:35 AM
globetechnology.com Jul 23 2004 3:26PM GMT
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