Dave L
USA
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Went in for my old guy physical this week and walked out of the Doc's office with a Roomba for $10.00!
After a thorough cleaning (After all it did spend a year cleaning the clinics floors), it works perfect.
I guess I'll be buying more parts from DJ... Yeah!!
but i did find that 500 series not great to hack for robots but can work as is
if using it for a robot,remove all vacuum parts and motors,and you have 2 high current switches and one low current switch (500ma) plus weight much less and have extra room for boards and batteries
most ROOMBA WORKING ON EBAY UNDER $35
A suprising side affect of testing the Roomba, is now my wife wants to keep it for doing the floors! Seems it worked too good.
me i have over 30 roomba's and sold 15 modified roomba's so far and working on making more since orders keep comming in for them
the design is a little like the TURTLEBOT DESIGN that sell alot at $500 ONLY PLATFORM
turtlebot robot
mine i sell easy at half the price,also can be used for EZB ,turtlebot uses open source ROS software
on the main page kinect and laptop not included only IROBOT create robot ,deck and hardware
same as mine only i add extra battery charging design using 2 batteries
i have one 5 blocks away large thrift store (goodwill) always in there everyday
last time got a roomba complete 4220 model $8 and working,contact was damage a little ,but easy fix and now working perfect
when you use a roomba ,remove all vacuum parts,including motors,then you have lots of room and 3 high current switches
I can answer that. The create works fine with D.J.'s cable with only two pins connected, Signal and ground. The roomba Movement Panel works fine connected up to the EZB.
Mel
from the control panel only a few buttons,where the 25 pin as much much more
plus there is no output ,for sensor data witch is very usefull on all roomba's and create models