{"id":650,"date":"2007-02-02T19:55:57","date_gmt":"2007-02-03T03:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/02\/roomba-the-robot-vacuume\/"},"modified":"2008-04-30T10:01:16","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T18:01:16","slug":"roomba-the-vacuum-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/02\/roomba-the-vacuum-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"Roomba the Vacuum Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d ever get one of these things &#8212; robotic vacuums. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Woot<\/a> had them on sale for really cheap, so I looked into it and decided it&#8217;d be a great present for Grace (ahem, wedding anniversary coming up).<\/p>\n<p>Our unit came today and we gave it a test drive for 2 minutes (the manual says to give it an initial charge for 16 hours before use), and wow&#8230; that thing works great! Grace had this huge smile on her face when she saw the package arrive. Admittedly, it&#8217;s pretty hard for surprises when:<\/p>\n<p>a. the package is so freaking huge&#8230;<br \/>\nb. both of us are home all day long, and&#8230;<br \/>\nc. the name of the damn company is printed visibly on the outside of the packaging&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/roomba_box.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"centered\" alt=\"iRobot Roomba box\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/roomba_parts.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"centered\" alt=\"iRobot Roomba parts\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the more interesting things about iRobot &#8220;robots&#8221; is that they are totally hackable. The unit comes with a serial port that I can hook up to a computer and program it (or even load Linux on it if I wanted to). Some of the more well-known hacks include: bluetooth sensor, wifi-connection, customized routines&#8230; etc.<\/p>\n<p>Also worth mentioning is its packaging is very Apple-ish&#8230; or as Apple-esque as anybody has come anywhere close to packing a merchandize. Me like it very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d ever get one of these things &#8212; robotic vacuums. But Woot had them on sale for really cheap, so I looked into it and decided it&#8217;d be a great present for Grace (ahem, wedding anniversary coming up). Our unit came today and we gave it a test drive for 2 minutes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/02\/roomba-the-vacuum-robot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Roomba the Vacuum Robot&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-geek-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-au","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}