Mine are named Trouble (S9+) and Mayhem (m6). They're dressed in vinyl wraps to be less boring.
I call mine Cletus , because it ain't the smartest tool in the shed. At least once every run I have to kick it out from under it's nemesis...my living room chair. Where it has been bumping into the legs for 20m.
Roombas at the end of the world
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#22Mine are named Trouble (S9+) and Mayhem (m6). They're dressed in vinyl wraps to be less boring.
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I call mine Cletus , because it ain't the smartest tool in the shed. At least once every run I have to kick it out from under it's nemesis...my living room chair. Where it has been bumping into the legs for 20m.
As a slack-jawed yokel, I feel personally attacked.
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Makes you wonder about the conversion factor between Roomba years and human years.
My Roombas seem to last about 5 years (then they get transformed into experimental robot platforms). But since it's getting harder to find ones that don't connect to the network, I think I may just start actually repairing the one that's currently used as a vacuum when it breaks, so I can continue to have a good robotic vacuum.
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#25Clean when people are away and pets when they are home.
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#26We're going to get roombas with full AI at some point aren't we. Clean when people are away and pets when they are home.
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#27i remember some guy bought a bunch of roombas and programmed them to play pacman. it was pretty neat
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Not completely. If it's one that does mapping, that's all stored on the cloud. You can prevent some of the telemetry with a pi hole, but be aware that every run will end with a notification of "communication error" when the Roomba tries to report on you
Is there a maker of privacy respecting robot vacuum cleaners that you know of?
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#29We're going to get roombas with full AI at some point aren't we. Clean when people are away and pets when they are home.
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#30Mine are named Trouble (S9+) and Mayhem (m6). They're dressed in vinyl wraps to be less boring.
[1] for instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERPRf7SsfvY