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MAKE pal Todbot's Hacking Roomba book is now available for pre-order! It's all about how to turn your Roomba into your own singing, dancing, art making robot and will be shipping in mid-November, just in time for the holidays! - Link & Amazon.

Book notes:
A gizmo as cool as Roomba just begs to be hacked. Now, with this book and the official ROI specification furnished by iRobot®, you can become the robotic engineer you've always dreamed of being. Build a Bluetooth interface for your Roomba. Turn it into an artist. Install Linux on it and give it a new brain. Some hacks are functional, others are purely fun. All of them let you play with robotics, and not one will void your warranty.

• Build a serial interface tether.
• Set up a Bluetooth® interface.
• Drive Roomba.
• Play with sensors.
• Make it sing.
• Create a Roomba artist.
• Use your Roomba as a mouse.
• Connect Roomba to the Net.
• Wi-Fi your Roomba.
• Replace Roomba's brain.
• Install Roomba-cam.
• Put Linux® on Roomba.
• Features a companion Web site.

• Make a Roomba Serial Interface- Link.
• HOW TO - Roomba Bluetooth Interface- Link.
• Line following Roomba mod- Link.
• Tons of Roomba projects - Link.

Update: Tod wrote in! "Thanks for the mention! Amazon has the old color of the book, it's actually blue. The official site of the book is available at: http://hackingroomba.com/ Watch for new bonus hacks every few weeks or so!"