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Hacking Roomba book now available for pre-order

get tod bots book
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.

Related:

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!"

Comments

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Posted by: todbotdotcom on November 12, 2006 at 12:54 AM

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!

Posted by: kryten007 on November 12, 2006 at 9:26 AM

With all due respect, i think the cover change was a good move. The one shown above is a little busy and confusing...

Looks like a spectacular tome, though!

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