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The Roomba proprietary Serial Command Interface is available here: [http://www.irobot.com/images/consumer/hacker/Roomba_SCI_Spec_Manual.pdf Roomba SCI].
 
The Roomba proprietary Serial Command Interface is available here: [http://www.irobot.com/images/consumer/hacker/Roomba_SCI_Spec_Manual.pdf Roomba SCI].
  
=== Connecting to the Roomba ===
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=== Hacking the Roomba ===
  
 
Make your own [http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/02/how_to_make_a_roomba_seri.html Roomba-serial], [http://todbot.com/blog/2006/07/19/roombongle-a-roomba-usb-dongle/#more-119 Roomba-USB] or [http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/02/how_to_roomba_bluetooth_i.html Roomba-bluetooth] dongle.
 
Make your own [http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/02/how_to_make_a_roomba_seri.html Roomba-serial], [http://todbot.com/blog/2006/07/19/roombongle-a-roomba-usb-dongle/#more-119 Roomba-USB] or [http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/02/how_to_roomba_bluetooth_i.html Roomba-bluetooth] dongle.

Revision as of 15:21, 26 April 2010

Roomba is a low-cost robot produced by iRobot. It is intended to be a cleaning robot, however with little to no modification it can become a powerful educational/hobbyist robotics platform.

Roomba 560

Sensors & Actuators

The Roomba comes with these basic sensors:

  1. Four IR based cliff sensors
  2. Two bump sensors
  3. One wall sensor
  4. A top mounted IR sensor. Used by Virtual Walls, Docking Station, and Remote Control
  5. One Dirt Detector (acoustic impact). Some Roombas have two.

The Roomba is sold commercially as a mobile vacuum cleaner, thus it also has these actuators:

  1. Two driving wheels
  2. One main brush motor
  3. A side brush motor
  4. A Vacuum motor.

Communication protocol

The Roomba proprietary Serial Command Interface is available here: Roomba SCI.

Hacking the Roomba

Make your own Roomba-serial, Roomba-USB or Roomba-bluetooth dongle.

See also

Disassembling a Roomba 560

External links

Roomba Hacking Forum