Live Robot Hack Session
iRobot Roomba Live Hack
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Gonna hack the iRobot Roomba and connect it to the ARC software... Making it into a real robot! Put a camera on it and all that jazz. We'll be using the iRobot Roomba Movement Panel that also reads sensor data.
*Warning: We might be doing some real boring coding to fix any bugs in the iRobot Movement Panel robot skill
LOL! Glad to know your 9 year old nephew could sit on it and not damage it, so will try adding my Terminator skull on it for giggles and then possibly my large 3 foot tall RS media robot ride on top of it!
------So I found some simple driving programs that work when I use the USB Link cable to my P.C.(Turning, forward backward,flash the lights) and this other fancy program that used to be free is now only a demo
Matlab but I did find another download Zip file but I don't see any EXE program in there so I guess Demo and Paid is all you can get. I will look into the Stem Learning projects for more of the C projects but Waste of time I will just start using the Synthiam software in my Latte Panda. The best and most easy way to control this Roomba.
Another cool thing I noticed,If I run the simple driving script to control Roomba with my mouse,Only the wheel motors run ,no Vacuum noise,super quiet! When you just turn roomba on from the power switch it goes into all the same regular roomba cleaning programs default and the Vacuum is on making more noise.