Remote Control Roomba Hack

I was planning on making a remote serial port using a pair of nrf24l01 transceivers and an atmel chip interface.

Remote control roomba hack. Irobot roomba wi fi control duration. Ensure there is a direct line of sight from the remote control to roomba and that the remote is pointed at roomba. The roomba s behavior wasn t modified with this hack the robot simply served as a cheap base for a mobile autonomous air quality sensor. A gentleman named chris hughes has created a video of how to control your roomba vacuum with your nintendo wii remote control and the video is taking the internet by storm.

It works on any operating system that rxtx supports. Ben heck s roomba nerf dart collector part 1. Turn your roomba into a printer make your roomba remote controlled and much more. Remote control roomba robot tutorial with dj sures duration.

Lets you control roomba from a distance of up to 20 ft 6 m. Along the way hackers slowly began using the roomba to tinker with side projects both manipulating and controlling the device itself through sensors the device s circuit board and through. Before using your remote for the first time install 2 aa batteries. Hacking your irobot gives you the complete step by step instructions for 13 different projects to modify your irobot.

This includes mac os x linux and windows. Roomba tilt control with macbook and perl use the macbook s internal tilt sensors and perl to control your roomba. The remote control virtual walls and home base operate using an invisible infrared ir beam. It also works with processing.

Plug one unit into the roomba plug the other into your pc and it appears as a. Roombacomm is java library for communicating and controlling the roomba. Oh and if you want to try this roomba hack at home chris has also provided the source code.