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Roomba + Tablet PC = ?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the because-you-can dept.

ptorrone writes "Using "off the shelf parts" I have constructed another pretty good mobile robot for my home. A Tablet PC is the brain and the Roomba robot vac is the locomotion. I'm currently working on sending the IR commands from the pc to the Roomba and having the robot "do a tour" and post photos / video automatically to the "roblog" (my robot photo blog). So yah, the Tablet PC sucks ;-]"

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  1. Who Cares....Really??? Simpltons by liquidzero4 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How does this junk make it onto slashdot. Big deal, I see nothing exciting or ground breaking. This is a project that just about anyone with any real C.S. or Engineering knowledge can accomplish.

    This is childsplay.

  2. Notice that it's running Windows? by BigBlockMopar · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This shouldn't get posted until there are detailed instructions on how to build :)

    Yeah, a few thousand people build them.

    Then a few dozen virii are written which cause these infected machines to wander about the house taking photographs of everything, and send the pictures back to some Chechnyan e-mail address.

    A couple of days later, burglars are dispatched.

    Paranoid is just the smart way to be, since the whole world is out to get you.

    --
    Fire and Meat. Yummy.