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Hi Rob,
Great overview of a first encounter with a Roomba! I’ve now had mine for about a year and have been very happy with them.
To answer your worries:
I did a lot of research on the models and by most accounts, Roombas don’t seem to last incredibly long. I scrapped my plans to buy the expensive kitted-out model with docking station and components and instead bought the cheapest one on Amazon (and it’s red!). So I don’t dock it. I’m just in a pattern of a couple of times a week, turning it on before I leave for work (it’s loud so I usually don’t have it on for very long if I’m home) and then coming home, locating the Roomba, emptying the dust and plugging him in to charge. It’s a bit low-tech but I don’t mind.
Now for the hackery:
If you don’t care about vacuuming/hoovering, get the iRobot instead. It’s cheaper, you can get components like bluetooth modules to fit and work more easily, it’s a bit more plug-n-play. Plus it has a shelf (for beer, mentioned in a moment). I have both, but end up using the iRobot more for messing around since it’s lighter and a bit more designed for that. There are plenty of articles on using Robotics Studio for this including this one on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb483025.aspx so don’t worry. The Hacking Roomba book is key as it has some brilliant projects and fun ideas. The beer caddy was unfortunately a joke, although it has been my goal for some time to get to the point where my NXT can open the fridge, grab the beer, dump it in the tray of the iRobot, and the iRobot brings it over, but getting them to work together has not been easy. Yet. This is a good reminder to myself that I need to do a blog post on what I’ve done with mine so far, so will try to get that up over Christmas. Thanks, Rob!
–Martha
p.s. I realize I have never named any of my robots! Doh! Will name them prior to blog post. ;-)
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I had something intelligent to say as well but I forgot what it was.
Martha I really appreciate your thoughts on further Roomba explorations, and would love to read that blog entry when you post it!