{"id":8681,"date":"2005-11-16T16:52:02","date_gmt":"2005-11-16T16:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8681"},"modified":"2005-11-16T16:52:02","modified_gmt":"2005-11-16T16:52:02","slug":"diy-roomba-battery-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8681","title":{"rendered":"DIY Roomba Battery Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/roombaBatts.jpg\">I love my Roomba, but one of the places where it could be improved is the battery. Mine has already given up the ghost and it&#8217;s only a couple of years old. I didn&#8217;t want to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00022HZ04\/\" target=new>spend US$50 on a replacement battery<\/a>, and I knew that lots of people had hacked their Roombas, so I figured they&#8217;d played with the batteries as well. I was right! RoombaReview.com hosts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roombareview.com\/hack\/battery.shtml\" target=new>a little tutorial<\/a> on how to take apart your Roomba&#8217;s battery and replace its innards with NiMH C-cells intended for R\/C cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love my Roomba, but one of the places where it could be improved is the battery. Mine has already given up the ghost and it&#8217;s only a couple of years old. I didn&#8217;t want to spend US$50 on a replacement battery, and I knew that lots of people had hacked their Roombas, so I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8681\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DIY Roomba Battery Replacement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}