Hack-Friendly Roomba Scheduler

Grok Headline matches for Hack-Friendly Roomba Scheduler

302 Redirect Hack Fastly Becoming Most
Infamous SE Listings Hack Ever

302 Redirect Hack Fastly Becoming Most
Infamous SE Listings Hack Ever 03/14/2005 05:10 PM
This subject just will not die until the search engines address it. "Google and Yahoo are now working to perfect ways to determine when to treat a 302 like a Moved-Temporarily redirect, and when to treat it like an exit-tracker. It's far from a simple problem, so it's going to take some time."

Hack . . . hack back . . . repeat

Hack . . . hack back . . . repeat 08/13/2004 10:39 AM

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.

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.

More Roomba hacking

More Roomba hacking 07/14/2004 10:00 AM
Another group of hardware hackers have at a Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner:

"For higher level control, we've attached a Virgin Webplayer. The Webplayer was sold as a loss leader for Virgin's internet service in the late 90s, and thus can be found on ebay for under $100. It has two serial ports, a 200MHz Geode processor, 64M ram, and a miniPCI port. Thus, we can give it an 802.11b card, a webcam, and a usb-serial adapter."

Link (via MetaFilter)

Roomba Gets Overhaul

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

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]

Related
Australian Robot Vacuum Contender: Floorbotics [Gizmodo]
Trilobite Vs. Roomba: The Mystery Revealed [ArtOfSpeed]
Electrolux Trilobite Robotic Floor Vac Review (Bunny Not Included) [Gizmodo]

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?

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]

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...

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.

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.

More Roomba and links inside.

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]

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.

The Scheduler

The Scheduler 11/01/2003 11:55 PM
New Release

DVB Web Scheduler

DVB Web Scheduler 08/19/2004 11:14 PM
We are Alive

job-scheduler 1.1.0

job-scheduler 1.1.0 09/14/2004 11:12 AM
A program that schedules programs to be run at specified times.

JIT Scheduler v8.20

JIT Scheduler v8.20 03/25/2005 05:06 PM
JIT Scheduler is a task scheduler. It lets you launch tasks on specified days and times. JIT Scheduler launches applications, documents, system shutdown and reminders. [Shareware $16.00 30 Days 677 KB]

job-scheduler 1.0.0

job-scheduler 1.0.0 09/04/2004 02:51 AM
A program that schedules programs to be run at specified times.

Employee Scheduler

Employee Scheduler 11/04/2003 10:58 AM
First release of Employee Scheduler

iDo Script Scheduler X 1.6b7

iDo Script Scheduler X 1.6b7 04/26/2004 11:02 PM
iDo Script Scheduler is a scheduler for running AppleScripts at any desired time.

Open Scheduler

Open Scheduler 09/07/2004 08:15 PM
documents/code uploaded

Macro Scheduler v7.2.041

Macro Scheduler v7.2.041 11/13/2003 12:22 PM
Macro Scheduler is a powerful scheduling and macro scripting tool that lets you create macros to control your Windows applications and assign tasks to scheduled events, desktop shortcuts or hotkeys. Scripts can be built to control any program or command which accepts keyboard and mouse input. Alternatively, mouse and keyboard events can be captured using the built in macro recorder. You can even edit recorded macros. [Shareware $59.95 2.07 MB]

Employee Scheduler 1.51

Employee Scheduler 1.51 07/16/2004 05:22 AM
A program that makes schedules for employees.

Employee Scheduler 1.50

Employee Scheduler 1.50 04/14/2004 06:22 AM
A program that makes schedules for employees.

iDo Script Scheduler 1.5.1

iDo Script Scheduler 1.5.1 03/14/2003 03:45 PM
iDo Script Scheduler lets you create a schedule to run your scripts and it can also be controlled by AppleScript. Not only can you automatically launch your scripts, but each time they run, you can pass a line of parameters to your script.

Release notes: Background software updated to match PowerKey 4.1.4. Added an "Execute Event" item to the Edit menu to run a script immediately. Added a contextual menu to create, edit and delete events. In some circumstances, if iDo Script Scheduler was used in conjunction with the PowerKey 4.1.3 software, the scheduled scripts failed to run -- fixed. In Mac OS 9, hot key events were affected by the state of the caps lock key, even though it was not displayed in the event editor -- fixed. (In OS X, the caps lock key is ignored when creating or activating hot keys.)

iDo Script Scheduler 1.5.2

iDo Script Scheduler 1.5.2 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
A utility which lets you automatically run AppleScripts, shell and Perl scripts at any time of the day or night.

ArsTechnica Explains O(1) Scheduler

ArsTechnica Explains O(1) Scheduler 12/25/2003 06:39 PM

ORS - On-line Resource Scheduler

ORS - On-line Resource Scheduler 03/14/2003 06:17 PM
Improved Program Configuration

Team Scheduler Platinum 9.0

Team Scheduler Platinum 9.0 10/29/2003 04:56 PM
Professional Sports Scheduler & League Management System.

Quartz Enterprise Job Scheduler

Quartz Enterprise Job Scheduler 12/06/2003 06:47 PM
Quartz 1.3.0 release candidate released.

Multi Event Scheduler

Multi Event Scheduler 01/02/2005 07:09 AM
mes available for download

IBM scheduler works with grids,
mainframes

IBM scheduler works with grids,
mainframes 06/28/2004 09:48 AM
IBM on Monday unwrapped new software that allows corporate users to carry out both cross-platform and cross-domain scheduling by integrating enterprise-class applications across both grids and other distributed environments.

AutoTask 2000 Task Scheduler v3.12

AutoTask 2000 Task Scheduler v3.12 04/23/2004 10:49 AM
AutoTask 2000 is a task scheduler designed specifically for Windows. AutoTask is an extremely versatile event scheduling software that can be ran as a service or as a desktop application in the background. AutoTask has very flexible scheduling and conditional triggers for running various task. It has also the ability to run multiple commands per task, much like mini scripts or macros. [Shareware $49.95 30 Days 2.26 MB]

Bossa, a Framework for Scheduler
Development

Bossa, a Framework for Scheduler
Development 07/08/2004 05:30 PM
Slashdot Jul 8 2004 9:41PM GMT

Manually Installing the Task Scheduler

Manually Installing the Task Scheduler 08/28/2004 06:12 AM

saturn Centralized Scheduler for Network

saturn Centralized Scheduler for Network 04/10/2005 09:34 PM
v0.1pre1 is out
Grok Description matches for Hack-Friendly Roomba Scheduler
GrokA matches for Hack-Friendly Roomba Scheduler

Hack-Friendly Roomba Scheduler

The following phrases have been identified by the grok system as matching this entry: