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mathias

I posted about the Open Mower #robot already, and it is pretty neat. https://openmower.de/

But after fighting with a Roborock vacuum, trying to get it to pair with a used auto-empty dock that I bought on eBay, and failing, I really wish we had open source, upgradeable robot vacuums right now. Maybe taking a popular series of chassis from Roborock, Roomba, or Shark or Dreame, and giving it its own onboard processing plus a “brain” in something like a #HomeAssistant extension so that it didn’t rely on GPUs somewhere for image detection and didn’t send metrics off to a server somewhere.

Folks could design and build their own add-ons as they need them or can afford them. For example, there’s an upgrade available commercially to add a mop dryer to this dock, and it’d be neat to add that if I can get the dock working, because it’s less likely to get moldy. But also other companies have released a kit that replaces the clean and dirty water tanks on the dock with plumbing hookups — I can’t use that anywhere in my house because we don’t have laundry room or a large bathroom that it could work in, but others might want to design and build their own as an upgrade for this hypothetical open source robot vacuum.

And as a reminder, I’m pretty sure that Roomba got bought by Amazon and is now just another little Internet-of-Surveillance tool for them.

A hypothetical open source vacuum that doesn’t just bump around randomly until it is out of charge would be:

The base unit with onboard lidar and a camera for image detection. Quiet vacuum with some power. A mount for a future mop to be installed (or ability to replace the rear bottom shell to support one, later.) A basic dock that charges and provides some beacon to SLAM during operation.

A mopping upgrade.

An auto-empty dock for the dust canister.

An even fancier mopping and auto-dustbin-emptying dock. Upgrades possible: heated mop dryer and plumbing kit.

Make it all run on ROS and packable/configurable. Let it tie in to HomeAssistant automations and scenes.

It all sounds very cool but I haven’t done a ton with robotics in a long time.

Open MowerOpenMower User GuideOpenMower - The DIY Smart Mowing Robot for Everyone
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Ballarat Hackerspace

Vernon Update: We designed/made a shim for the Ozito batteries in the vacuum cleaner... this lets us borrow some of the 18V power and use it to drive our motors and #ESP32 or @Raspberry_Pi Pico (we're planning to try both).

We've also finished designing/printing all the main hardware parts to get it rolling, such as the drive gears, hose adapters clean up the front end, and an integrated adapter inside the hose part that connects it all to the chassis.

Our resident electronics guru also got the motors hooked up and wheels turning, so now it's just a matter of getting the code done (doesn't he just ask AI to do that these days? easy peasy) and Vernon will be cruising around the space sucking up everyones belongings.

#hackerspace#project#diy
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

@annaleen @simon

#ChatGPT empowered #Bing:

“I will not harm you unless you harm me first”!

The beginning of a (dumb?) #Skynet?

The #robots in the #IRobot movie were more intelligent.

Whatever happened to #Asimov's #LawsOfRobotics?

"First Law
A #robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm...

Third Law
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law."

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Ronathon Livingston Seagull

#introduction post. I'm Joe, a well-seasoned socal guy by way of Illinois and the SF Bay Area. I'm the operator/admin of the socialnotwork.net instance, a friends-only instance I stood up last week. Good times!

I'll boost #music, #robot stuff, #art, leftist #politics, #jokes, #cats, and random nerd shit like #computers, #space, #nanotechnology, etc.

I mostly program #rustlang for fun, and my ultimate goal is to end global material and energy scarcity, thus destroying capitalism.

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