On 11/7/19 1:55 PM, Laurence Perkins wrote:
On Thu, 2019-10-03 at 20:13 -0400, james wrote:
Gentoo community,
Robotic vacuum cleaners are all the rage nowadays.
I'd like to buy/build one, that also has remote camera (so I can see
what troubles it is having by reviewing stored video) find it easy,
and
make sure it's not just banging against the wall. I'm not so
interested
in a slick, massively miniturized model, as much as I am
something where I can get to the firmware, or is completely open
sourced; so I can fix/enhance the thing.
If it's already done, then my searches have missed it, or a
community
work on such linux centric solutions to automating home/small-office
flooring.
Anyone know of such a robotic vacuum that is basically very open, if
not
completely open source?
Gentoo friendly vaccuum?
Lawnmower is next on the list.
All suggestions and comments are most welcome.
James
I don't know of any current models that have open firmware, but a bunch
of the older ones have a serial interface that you can attach to and
send them commands. People used to tape a Pi or something and a camera
to the top of them and then program them to do all sorts of things. I
suspect that's still your best bet. Most of them don't have a lot of
brains, just a simple response pattern that will eventually cover the
whole room and maybe an IR homing system to let it find its dock again
when the battery runs low.
LMP
Interesting approach. I guess I could match this with wireless ethernet
embedded device, with the serial port for interoperability. I would have
thought somebody would have already set this up.....
thanks,
James
