Hardware Hacking In The WSJ

NaDrew writes "The Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece called "So Your Roomba Vacuums ... Does It Also Take Pictures?" (No reg. req.), profiling a couple of hardware hackers. Phillip Torrone has modified a laptop-brained robot to follow his Segway, which he is modifying to follow a pink ball. He's also modded his Roomba with a built-in Webcam. The article goes into a bit of the history of hardware hacking, from the CueCat to Andrew 'Bunnie' Huang's Xbox hacks."

Comments

Eek

[StevenHenderson]

With the help of small digital video cameras, Mr. Torrone is modifying the Segway to automatically follow a pink ball.

Better make sure you don't walk around the house naked or the Segway will chase your nutsack. :)

so he hasn a

[geekoid]

roomba with a view?

thank yiou, All be here all week!

Don't forget to tip your sysadmins.

Re:so he hasn a

[geekoid]

gah, I re-read that twice before submitting, and it still looks like it was typed by a man with hooks instead of hands.

stupid cold medicine

OK Wait a Second

[Gudlyf]

"Phillip Torrone and his wife share their Seattle house with five Sony Aibo dog robots, two Segway motorized scooters, a suitcase-size robot whose brain is a laptop computer, and dozens of other gadgets."

Phil Torrone has an actual, flesh in blood wife?! Are we sure that's Phil Torrone's wife, or one of the robots he put together by beowulfing sixteen PocketPC's, a Garmin eTrex GPS, three Aibos, a Roomba and a Segway together?