Posted by
ryuzaki0
on from the more-fun-than-vacuuming dept.
WannaGeek writes "Jake Luck and John Ioannidis have dissected a Roomba for your educational pleasure. Just the basics, but important information on how to kill a Roomba if you get trapped in a sci-fi horror flick with one threatening to suck up your breakfast."
And a bunch of lonely geeks are reading about getting inside something that's known for sucking really well.
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Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate. Ex-O'Reilly/MIT employee, now a full-time Google employee.
Isn't this old news?
by
Arcaeris
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"important information on how to kill a Roomba"
I thought we already acquired this vital information circa 1985? You just jump in the air and stomp on it. Or spit fireballs. Or get a starm... ohhhh Roomba.
important information on how to kill a Roomba if you get trapped in a sci-fi horror flick with one threatening to suck up your breakfast.
I'll remember that, next time that happens. Though, if it's a typical sci-fi/horror flick, my breakfast would be trying to eat me anyway.
The best way to kill one, though, would be to make a little trail of dirt that it follows around a corner, where you are waiting with a sledgehammer....
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Re:In case you were wondering...
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Rojo^
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The cool part about the Roombas is, once you have dissected it and put it back together, you have a handy vacuum cleaner to pick up all the left over screws. ..
"Honey, I don't think you were supposed to have all that left over."
"Nonsense! The company included those for demonstration. Watch."
*clack clack clack fzzzt!*
Umm, maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea to bookmark the Roomba anatomy site.
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A hammer...
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Anonymous Coward
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...probably works even better.
deedeedee de dee DEE!
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NanoGator
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"Just the basics, but important information on how to kill a Roomba if you get trapped in a sci-fi horror flick with one threatening to suck up your breakfast."
Pff, I didn't even bother reading the article. Everybody knows that to kill a Roomba you have to eat a mushroom, grow really big, then jump on it.
A Roomba is great until it gets stuck behind your computer desk or wrapped up in something. Might as well get a puppy.
Re:12 year olds rejoice
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Cyclometh
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That's a great idea. Take a device that, if it malfunctions, simply fails to clean your floor. Convert it to a device, that if it fails, probably kills a pet, converts your hedges to mulch, or takes out the local playground.
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So when do we finally get the first Roomba/Segway crossover or the Type R|oomba?
Hate me!
And a bunch of lonely geeks are reading about getting inside something that's known for sucking really well.
Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate. Ex-O'Reilly/MIT employee, now a full-time Google employee.
"important information on how to kill a Roomba"
I thought we already acquired this vital information circa 1985? You just jump in the air and stomp on it. Or spit fireballs. Or get a starm... ohhhh Roomba.
Well, I guess those three techniques still work.
important information on how to kill a Roomba if you get trapped in a sci-fi horror flick with one threatening to suck up your breakfast.
I'll remember that, next time that happens. Though, if it's a typical sci-fi/horror flick, my breakfast would be trying to eat me anyway.
The best way to kill one, though, would be to make a little trail of dirt that it follows around a corner, where you are waiting with a sledgehammer....
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The cool part about the Roombas is, once you have dissected it and put it back together, you have a handy vacuum cleaner to pick up all the left over screws. . .
"Honey, I don't think you were supposed to have all that left over."
"Nonsense! The company included those for demonstration. Watch."
*clack clack clack fzzzt!*
Umm, maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea to bookmark the Roomba anatomy site.
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...probably works even better.
"Just the basics, but important information on how to kill a Roomba if you get trapped in a sci-fi horror flick with one threatening to suck up your breakfast."
Pff, I didn't even bother reading the article. Everybody knows that to kill a Roomba you have to eat a mushroom, grow really big, then jump on it.
"Derp de derp."
What happens when you overclock a Roomb- Whoops! There goes the cat!
Just because you can mod me down, doesn't mean you're right. Shoes for industry!
Must be serendipity when you have two Slashdot articles, one on dissecting a poor, hapless appliance and one right under it covering when the puny humans pay for their transgressions
"I choose YOU Roomba-bot!"
Yuck. I feel dirty for the association.
in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
A Roomba is great until it gets stuck behind your computer desk or wrapped up in something. Might as well get a puppy.
That's a great idea. Take a device that, if it malfunctions, simply fails to clean your floor. Convert it to a device, that if it fails, probably kills a pet, converts your hedges to mulch, or takes out the local playground.
Now imagine a Beowulf cluster of those...