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. :)

Roomba pic site

[CodeWheeney]

Here.

Re:My Roomba doesn't take pictures

[Jeff DeMaagd]

I do a search on the article, and it doesn't mention spying, big brother or anything like that. Paranoia, paranoid and such aren't mentioned either. So where do you get this stuff?

So you haven't read the article. Not that I expect slashdotters to do that. Don't dismiss the article because of what articles might have gone before. It is actually a pretty positive article, not that you'd know, because you didn't read it.

The article even has a nice picture of a wok skimmer operating as a parabolic antenna.

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