Wow, this is really cool. Not sure my wife would let me hack her Roomba, though. She kind of treats it like a pet.
On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Neil Van Dyke <[email protected]> wrote: > FYI, I'm almost finished with (untested) code for a Racket Roomba library, > and plan to test and release it once my iRobot serial cable arrives. It > should work with all Roombas (and iRobot Creates) of the last 6-7 years. > > Initially, I plan to control the Roomba using a serial cable tether to an > offboard laptop. Later, if I have time, I plan to have a Raspberry Pi > onboard the Roomba, which can switch between running stored Racket programs > onboard and being a WiFi-based bridge for controlling Roomba wirelessly > from an offboard PC. (This would permit using DrRacket to develop/debug > the program while still controlling the robot, and then running the same > program on the robot without the offboard PC.) > > If anyone has any interest/need for this, let me know, and we can compare > notes. > > > Neil V. > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/**users <http://lists.racket-lang.org/users> >
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