Hacking Major Appliances For Fun And Profit?

Posted by Cliff on Monday October 20, 2003 @02:42PM from the workshop-of-the-budding-inventor dept.

waynelorentz asks: "I've finally reached a point in my life where my time with my family is more important than my money, so I've given in to my wife's persistent urging and bought a Roomba robotic vacuum. While I'm waiting for delivery, I googled for additional information about it and found there is a fledgling community of Roomba hackers outfitting their Roombas with cameras and other equipment. So, it got me wondering - what other appliances have Slashdot-types hacked? I remember when the Internet was young, there were coffee and soda machines you could ping, and the fabled Jellyjet toaster. Anything else?"

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Search.pl is back! by Dancin_Santa · 2003-10-20 15:30 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Yay

On-topic: Your wife must be really lazy if she can't get up once a week to run the vacuum. Roombas are cute, but they are no substitute for a real vacuum cleaner.
Lard ass! by jo42 · 2003-10-20 15:36 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Get off of your fat American arse, stop going to fast food joints and stuffing yourself with crap food, and push a frickin' vacuum cleaner around yerself you lazy smegin' slob!