PosterBot - Hack a Roomba into poster printer

Posted Sep 7th 2007 4:52PM by Will O'Brien
Filed under: contests, robots hacks

(I'm in a robot mood this week, ok?) [Wyatt] sent in his posterbot. Lacking the gift of girly handwriting, he grafted an inkjet printer onto his Roomba to make posters for him. There have been other bots to do this, my favorite being the graffitiwriter. Of course, [Wyatt]'s bot is less likely to get you arrested.

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Reader Comments

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1. anyone starts complaining about robots in _here_ needs a boot to the head!

(a cold boot!!)

:D

Posted at 6:59PM on Sep 7th 2007 by strider_mt2k

2. Well that was a letdown. I thought they would be cool enough to make it retain its injet abilities so it'd injet and move slightly ahead and repeat. poo!

Posted at 8:55PM on Sep 7th 2007 by Life2Death

3. You want to see a picture of my WHAT space?
Yar!

Posted at 9:09PM on Sep 7th 2007 by Pomel

4. ive had a create for like a year now and nothing to do with it than hook it up to roborealm and make it chase my dog

Posted at 4:48PM on Sep 8th 2007 by alex McCown

5. would be cool if it could go back. So i dont really see a use

Posted at 5:00PM on Sep 8th 2007 by nom1

6. do note that it's not a roomba, although it looks similar. it's not a vacuum; just a robot made for diy-ing.

Posted at 6:59PM on Sep 8th 2007 by garrett

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