Wiimote+Roomba=Wiimba !

longjie0723 asked:


This is my first roomba hacking. I can say it is a kind of warning for the society taken over by robots. It is a noble challenge to take the human job back from the robots. In short, I changed my wonderful roomba into an ordinary dull vacuum cleaner using a remote controller of Wii :-)

Floor Robot

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25 Responses to “Wiimote+Roomba=Wiimba !”

  1. Floor Robot

    oh, well i never saw or heard of a roomba before i saw this video xD
    i though it was one of these things who went around and cleaned by itself…

  2. teknotoast says:

    Floor Robot

    you can already do that… and you don’t even have to hack your roomba.

  3. britbeetle says:

    Floor Robot

    “…and a chopstick case”

    That line cracked me up. Great job enslaving the Roomba

  4. kellerj0 says:

    Floor Robot

    what have u improved?

  5. Floor Robot

    this hack would be ten times as great if the roomba was controlled with a joystick, then you could sit on your ass when you cleaned!

  6. Knottsie says:

    Floor Robot

    You should put the wiimote in your sleeve and amaze people:)

  7. trublu45458 says:

    Floor Robot

    You invented a wireless vacuum.Get a patent lol

  8. lottie5000 says:

    Floor Robot

    cool its like uve got ur own vacum but you haven’t

  9. Esquilo says:

    Floor Robot

    I tought it quite funny, as you said, you turned it into an ordinary (but high tech) ordinary vacuum.

  10. Born2killx says:

    Floor Robot

    Props on the Close Encounters tune. :P

  11. claw7755 says:

    Floor Robot

    hacking makes the world a better place

  12. Floor Robot

    that is so cool, it is a cool magic trick you can show your friends, i’m controlling the vacuum with an invisible stick.

  13. Floor Robot

    they took a roomba and turned it into a regular vaccum, the point of roomba is to clean so u dont…. but still pretty cool

  14. MrSpike13 says:

    Floor Robot

    Yeah, no that’s cool but what I mean is I would use the term ‘hack’ to describe an operation that changes or breaks in to something (technological) for personal gain i.e. to hack a WiFi router to use another persons internet connection.. to hack a fruit machine to force it to pay out jackpot.

    Controlling a Roomba with a Wii remote is clever shit but I wouldn’t say its hacking.

    Anyways, I’m off to hack my girlfriend

    =/

  15. Ar7ific1al says:

    Floor Robot

    lol the term “hack” has become common and acceptable by the internet community for any sort of modification to code, hardware, software, etc, pertaining to technology. I agree, you wouldn’t say you’re going to hack your car, you would say you’re going to modify it. But again, “hack” is used with technology in reference. =]

  16. Floor Robot

    Yeah you wouldn’t say that because hacking has to do with computers..lol

  17. FHSTVAshes says:

    Floor Robot

    I’d say it’s pretty practical.

  18. tedioustad says:

    Floor Robot

    :O! the evolution of wireless vacuuming!

  19. mshsz says:

    Floor Robot

    well not really maybe he enjoys hacking things so this was a useful entertaining

  20. Floor Robot

    It looks like it would be even better for getting under furniture than the vacuums that the over-excited people on infomercials advertise.

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