Hacking Your Roomba

When your Roomba has cleaned your house completely, why not let it work in other mysterious ways? Hacking Roomba seems to be obsessed with the idea, and not only has released a book on the subject, but also shows you various mods and hacks. For example, you can turn it into a midi-player, a Bluetooth adapter, and even a Battlestar Galactica Cylon, although that one is a bit of a stretch. Check out the site if you are not quite ready to invest in the book, for there are many projects that are displayed there. And the best part is, even after you hack away, your Roomba will still clean your floor.

Via Hacking Roomba

iRobot Roomba - The Vacuum Cleaning Robot

We're not sure you can have a Robot blog without covering products from iRobot, and that's not a bad thing. We love our little Roomba vacuum cleaning robot, and think they're hard to beat. Recently iRobot has improved the Roomba with the 500 series.

The robots are much more reliable and some of the upgrades include:

• Improved cleaning performance
• Improved navigation
• Easier to use, maintain and upgrade
• Voice demonstration
• Virtual Wall® Lighthouse™
• Amazing pickup
• Larger filter
• Won't get stuck
• Lower maintenance
• On-board Scheduling
• Wireless Command Center

We've seen the new 500 series in action, and it really has improved from earlier Roomba models. We noticed the Roomba 500 series doesn't get stuck on the edges of carpets as much (it can still get stuck). We also like the on-board scheduling feature.

For competition however you can look to lots of different robot vacuum products if Roomba isn't for you. Other robot vacuums include the Infinuvo Cleanmate and the Vesture TrackVac. We'll cover these as we get more details on them.

At iRobot Vacuum Cleaning Roomba

Looking for more iRobot products? The currently available list of iRobot products include: iRobot Vacuum Cleaning Roomba, iRobot Floor Washing Scooba, Dirt Dog Text Link, iRobot Shop Sweeping Dirt Dog, iRobot Pool Cleaning Verro, iRobot Gutter Cleaning Looj, and the iRobot Virtual Visiting ConnectR.