Dorkbot SoCal 14 - Tod Kurt's Roomba Hack

Tod will show how a Roomba can be a MIDI synth or make room-sized Spirographs, as well as demonstrate what a good platform for robotics experimentation the Roomba has become. The cheap hardware and software needed to hack a Roomba will be shown and discussed. Tod E. Kurt is the author of the upcoming book "Hacking Roomba". He has engineered the hardware and software for robotic camera systems that went to Mars. He was a founding developer and systems architect of Overture Systems, née GoTo.com, later sold to Yahoo. Now as co- creator of ThingM.com, he's designing sketchable hardware and networked portable objects. He has degrees in Electrical Engineering from Caltech and Physics from Occidental College. His robotics hacking began at the age twelve when he took apart his BigTrak, RC car, and chemistry set box to build an upright programmable robot.

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• roomba
• hack
• spirograph
• robot
• dorkbotsocal
• dorkbot
• losangeles
• machineproject
• LA
• hacking
• MIDI

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[gardnerbickford]

yeah dude. bad quality.

[cyberslurpie]

this is about the crappiest video I have ever seen on youtube.... this is worse than my cell phone video!!!

[amuletts]

Yup, I only know what's going on here from the description :(

[BusterG7]

Just a pity the guy cant capture good quality film!