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	<title>todbot blog &#187; roomba</title>
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	<description>Random experiments, circuits, code, rapid prototyping, sometimes things to buy, and the odd tune by Tod E. Kurt.</description>
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		<title>iRobot Create Robot Review</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/05/17/irobot-create-robot-review/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/05/17/irobot-create-robot-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 16:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at HackingRoomba.com, I did a quick review of the iRobot Create, iRobot's robotics hacking-oriented robot that is basically a Roomba in disguise. 



Short version: All the Roomba hacks here work on the Create, and the Create offers several advantages to the serious robotics experimenter. However, it's not as cost-effective if you're on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roomba Hacking at Maker Faire</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/05/17/roomba-hacking-at-maker-faire/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/05/17/roomba-hacking-at-maker-faire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 16:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come see many of the Roomba hacks from the HackingRoomba.com site and book!  Roombas will be singing, dancing, making art and generally making a nuisance of themselves.  



Maker Faire is "a two-day, family-friendly event that celebrates arts, crafts, engineering, science projects and the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset. It's for creative, resourceful folks who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roombas Go Caroling</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/12/21/roombas-go-caroling/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/12/21/roombas-go-caroling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[macosx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roomba]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Roomba family was out caroling.  They stopped by and sang a few songs. I caught a few on tape.  I think they were a little tipsy on mulled 30W or something.

 (revver link)

This was a demo of RoombaMidi2, a Mac OS X program to turn your Roomba into a MIDI instrument. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Roomba Tilt Control and Holiday Buying Guide</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/12/08/roomba-tilt-control-and-holiday-buying-guide/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/12/08/roomba-tilt-control-and-holiday-buying-guide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 10:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[macosx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roomba]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two updates from HackingRoomba.com.

First, if you're unsure about how to get into hacking Roombas or just want some tips on how to get cheap Roombas, see the DIY Robotics with Roomba Holiday Buying Guide.

Second, if you've got a MacBook and a Roomba, try out this way of using the MacBook's built-in tilt sensors and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cylon Roomba &#8211; they do exist</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/11/29/cylon-roomba-they-do-exist/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/11/29/cylon-roomba-they-do-exist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[arduino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hardware-hacking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roomba]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With my recent infiltration of the Roomba home world, I was able to capture behind-the-scenes footage of several Roombas as they plan the takeover of humanity.  Kevin and Alex were right in Diggnation #71, this is how the first Cylon war begins.





(revver link, youtube link)

Build your own Cylon Roomba.
Learn about how they work [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>HackingRoomba.com updates</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/11/28/hackingroombacom-updates/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/11/28/hackingroombacom-updates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[arduino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roomba]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of new things in the Roomba world for me:

Awesome new Roomba hack by Isobot
Updates/Errata page created
Roomba prototyping plug for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>HackingRoomba.com site launch</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/11/12/hackingroombacom-site-launch/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/11/12/hackingroombacom-site-launch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2006 19:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[roomba]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The official accompaniment site for my new book Hacking Roomba is online.

It's called (surprise) HackingRoomba.com.

Thanks to Judith, Mike, and Ben for all their help getting it [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hacking Roomba now available for pre-order</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/11/10/hacking-roomba-now-available-for-pre-order/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/11/10/hacking-roomba-now-available-for-pre-order/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[roomba]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am thrilled to announce that Hacking Roomba, my book about how to turn your Roomba into your own singing, dancing, art making robot is available for pre-order on Amazon and will be shipping in mid-November, just in time for the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>RoombaCtrl: Drive your Roomba with your cell phone</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/09/12/roombactrl-drive-your-roomba-with-your-cell-phone/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/09/12/roombactrl-drive-your-roomba-with-your-cell-phone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 07:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[hardware-hacking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[macosx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roomba]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since Bluetooth adapters for Roombas appeared, I've wanted to control my Roomba with a cell phone.  All my recent phones have had Bluetooth. But getting a devkit for a phone was expensive and phone-specific.  Trying to develop J2ME (aka "JavaME") applications for cell phones has been  a mess, especially for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>41</slash:comments>
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		<title>Roombongle!  A Roomba USB dongle</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/07/19/roombongle-a-roomba-usb-dongle/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/07/19/roombongle-a-roomba-usb-dongle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 03:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[hardware-hacking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roomba]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The RooStick by RoombaDevTools.com is pretty cool.  It's tiny and it's USB, which is about all you need for me to bring you home.

But if you want to hack together something similar and you don't want to build a huge honking Roomba serial tether, you could build the Roombongle!

The Roombongle is a USB [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>SpiroExplorer, a Spirograph toy</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/06/03/spiroexplorer-a-spirograph-toy/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/06/03/spiroexplorer-a-spirograph-toy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2006 06:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ramblings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roomba]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So I've written a tool that can turn any parametric equation into a series of Roomba movement commands. Mostly, anyway.  The parametric equations I'm predominately focusing on are the hypotrochoid series of equations used in a Spirograph.

To explore the space of hypotrochoid curves I created SpiroExplorer, a simple Processing applet that lets you [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>RoombaComm library, release 0.95</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/06/01/roombacomm-library-release-095/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/06/01/roombacomm-library-release-095/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 01:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[hardware-hacking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roomba]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RoombaComm is Java library for communicating and controlling the Roomba.  It works on any operating system that RXTX supports.  This includes Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows.  It also works with Processing.  It will soon work with Flash and Max/MSP.

It's been a work in progress for several months and has [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Speaking at dorkbot-socal, Saturday June 3rd</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/05/30/speaking-at-dorkbot-socal-saturdy-june-3/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/05/30/speaking-at-dorkbot-socal-saturdy-june-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 18:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[general]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hardware-hacking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roomba]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the next meeting of the SoCal instantiaton of dorkbot, I'll be bringing an entourage of Roomba with me and will be demonstrating the hackability of them.  Some of the things I'll be talking about:

- RoombaMidi  / Roombas making music
- Roomba Spirographs / Roombas making art
- Roomba as robotics experimentation platform
- What's [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>RoombaDevTools RooStick</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/05/26/roombadevtools-roostick/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/05/26/roombadevtools-roostick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2006 00:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[roomba]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently purchased a RooStick from RoombaDevTools.com.  $29 + $6.50 shipping.

If you don't feel like building your own Roomba serial interface to let you hack your Roomba into a robot, you can use a RooStick.

The RooStick is a USB-to-Serial adapter with a Mini DIN 7-pin socket on it that matches the SCI connector [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>RoombaMidi: Roomba as MIDI instrument</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/05/03/roombamidi-roomba-as-midi-instrument/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/05/03/roombamidi-roomba-as-midi-instrument/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2006 07:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[macosx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roomba]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

The Roomba has a piezo beeper that can play tunes.  You've heard it.
And its motors make noise.  Why not put them under MIDI control?

So here is RoombaMidi: a Mac OS X application that creates a virtual MIDI [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>33</slash:comments>
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