{"id":9535,"date":"2007-04-20T13:00:35","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9535"},"modified":"2007-04-20T13:00:35","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T13:00:35","slug":"hacked-roomba-makes-love-and-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9535","title":{"rendered":"Hacked Roomba Makes Love AND War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/roombaWino.jpg\"><\/center> <\/p>\n<p> We covered Chris Myers&#8217;s work here before, his wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/isopoddesign.com\/5.html\" target=\"new\">Plexi-clad Palm robot<\/a>. Now he&#8217;s got some Roombas he&#8217;s been hacking up to similarly <a href=\"http:\/\/isopoddesign.com\/7.html\" target=\"new\">impressive effect<\/a>. He made one, a US$30 Craigslist special, into a sort of development platform, using an Arduino microcontroller and the Bluesmurf Bluetooth module. Thus outfitted, Roomba became a wine sommelier. Ah, Roomba, so sophisticated&#8230; But soon, Roomba answered the call to serve and traded in his towel and corkscrew for a gun and a bandelerro. Chris outtfitted his Red Roomba with an Airsoft gun and a homebuilt ammo hopper. Hell hath no fury like a Roomba scorned! (Be sure to check out the video of the militant vacuum in action). <\/p>\n<p> <center><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/roombaShooter.jpg\"><\/center> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We covered Chris Myers&#8217;s work here before, his wonderful Plexi-clad Palm robot. Now he&#8217;s got some Roombas he&#8217;s been hacking up to similarly impressive effect. He made one, a US$30 Craigslist special, into a sort of development platform, using an Arduino microcontroller and the Bluesmurf Bluetooth module. Thus outfitted, Roomba became a wine sommelier. Ah, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9535\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hacked Roomba Makes Love AND War&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9535","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}