Ooh, this might be a great project for my wife and I to build together
I can’t even get my wife to build a Lego set with me 🤣
Oh the physical part is all me, she just wants to do the computer stuff lol. But yeah she’s been interested in some projects where she can program and I can build.
I’ve got to share time on the 3d printer now she’s got the hang of it, we don’t have room for 2. But it’s still great to see!
Awesome project! I would love to buy some robovacs, but I don’t want some unknown entitity mapping our home and whatnot. Our maid would love it too. Being done earlier for the same pay 😁
Just use valetudo in this case it works great
Oh. Wow. Thanks. Last time I checked the market it was horrible and then I just gave up on robovacs. Too many different to reverse engineer every single one. But great, gonna check this one out deeply. Thanks man.
The setup is fairly involved and not super beginner friendly however I finally came across and finished to flash my robot a few weeks ago and i don’t notice any difference vs the stock firmware when using home assistant, beside the fact that its no longer connecting to all these random servers in China. It really is a wonderful project!
Sounds great! Although I less worry about Chinese servers than american servers 😁 I would even be fine if it were shittier then, or totally manual programming or whatever. Just not clouds that get data I know nothing about and have no agency over it.
The game changer in robot vacs for me was the emptying station. My first one didn’t have it and it just sat in the corner. Full.
Doesn’t that lock you in to a specific type of bag that only the robot manufacturer creates?
It does but I am still on my first ten pack so …
Also there are for sure some alternative bags, I just didn’t put time in to find them.
You still have to empty the station tho
I do that three times a year. It works for me.
No way you change the stinky dirty water only once every four months?
Same.
Though I’m not a vacuum cleaner, I just eat a lot. And I will also cry.
It looks like a DVD rewinder.
Be kind, vacuum my floor
As time goes on I’m hoping more products like this that give what was once only possible via locked down proprietary software a new open and repairable life as theres many new products and tech that I see but could never use unless I’d want to just upload everything I do to whoevers servers and pray that they don’t get breached.
https://www.opensourceecology.org/gvcs/
The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts. We’re developing open source industrial machines that can be made at a fraction of commercial costs, and sharing our designs online for free.
okay I clicked quite a few of those, And afaict, only the house is past the “planning” stage
the robot vac i have had for 3 years is the dumbest machine. goes over the same areas multiple times a session. has a manual steer setting but if i gotta steer it, whats the point of robotics? finally gave up and got a dust mop.
I just want one where the storage the vac empties out into is on the side so it can slide under a couch.
These things take so much damn space and for some reason they didn’t figure out there is a bunch of real estate underneath shit.
Delete this comment, sell idea to a company, profit! But in all seriousness this is a smart idea.
While this is a cool idea, if you read the article, it’s only an idea. Seems like nothing but a reference design has actually been made. Hoping to see it progress, but we shall see.
Yeah, over the years I’ve learned to not hold my breath about any interesting announcement. Though I’m at the point now where I don’t really care either way and feel like pointing it out for any specific project just feels overly pessimistic. Just let them cook or contribute knowing there’s never a guarantee it’ll come to fruition.
Concept of a vacuum.
If I have an old Roomba can I hack a new brain into it? I’ve got a Raspberry Pi and a soldering iron and a willingness to break them for science. Never done much hardware hacking though.
Technically yes GPIO -> pin headers of each physical control.
The two things with robot vacs is one cleaning the roller is to annoying. I think it would be best for it to be like a shop vac. Yeah it would not do as good a job but would be a good general cleaner and you don’t have to mess with the roller sweeper. Two is a base station to auto empty the refuse bin. Honestly for the first part it maybe just better as an option. so you have one for more thorugh clean that will need more maint but no more than a standard vacc and one that is less maint and can pickup more types of stuff. Might be good just to have the shop vac type go first so that the roller type gets gunked up less.
I agree completely but the suction required for something without a brush is huge and you’ll need a much bigger motor and battery. I had a vacuum that didn’t auto empty for years and while my new one is a huge upgrade it was a time saver just to have one do the vacuuming and then empty it manually or every other time if there wasn’t much dirt.
See I found it was not much of a time saving. I would rather just vaccum than clean and prep it. It was useful when my wife was sick as I literally needed to be able to do two things at once and cleaning it out could be done at any time and piece meal and such so it worked. But under normal circumstances, again, I would just prefer to vaccum which does not take all that much time and is not ardous. Now something that went pretty often and was like 99% autonomous where I just empty a bine once a week. That would be worth it. Even if I had to vaccum I could do it once a week and keep the carpet very clean or once a month and have it be pretty decently generally clean.
Awesome project. So cool DIYers can build something like this now (with a lot of help from the project owner)!
github
A user you’ve blocked has previously contributed to this repository.
look inside
claude
click insights
Top 3 committers is: some org account, another org account but with “.ai” in it, claudeThank you for saving me the time I would have wasted getting excited about this
Well there is nothing to be excited about, the entire repo is empty with only a bunch of readme files. Zero code has been written ai or not.
Don’t use any operating systems and most major websites then because theyre all using a coding agent now. It’s just the way the industry is going at the moment
Lemmy users don’t care about reality, you’re talking to a brick wall basically.
linux kernel code scrutiny is extreme
random vibe coded github repo code scrutiny is none at all
Go tell this to a fencepost near your home.
Read it and weep. From April 2026 https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-lays-down-the-law-on-ai-generated-code-yes-to-copilot-no-to-ai-slop-and-humans-take-the-fall-for-mistakes-after-months-of-fierce-debate-torvalds-and-maintainers-come-to-an-agreement
Again I am not advocating for AI coding agents but they ARE BEING USED in major applications. Unplug or accept a lot of software/websites you use are using coding agents
That’s exactly why I don’t like Linux that damn CIA project. Once I leave parents’ crib, imma sell my best laptop (with no parents looking at me like an absolute moron) then get a ThinkPad T450p from a crackhead and then get someone else to buy that one MacBook CPU with an adapter board from Aliexpress and give that to me so that I can finally compute in peace with some BSD.
The difference between Linux and this random repository is that Linux has very strict code quality control, this repo and other thousand of projects (including winvibe 11) don’t;
If everyone had a strict policy of “AI as an help only and not as a replacement” and quality control, then i wouldn’t complain at all but we aren’t at that point yet and i doubt we will ever be
It’s open source. Feel free to write your own software, or pay someone to do it for you.
“Here is a beautiful piece of art. You say it’s just a blank piece of paper? Please feel free to draw your own art on it, and then it will be as I said.”
I know the real news here is the hardware, but it is still funny…
The thing is… it’s not blank. It’s painted, but someone complains no that the art is bad, but that they don’t like how it was painted. Well, nobody is forcing you to look at it, you can even paint it yourself.
Isn’t the repo basically blank…?
I don’t see that as a problem. A vacuum cleaner isn’t critical infrastructure and shouldn’t be connected to the internet, so no security concerns. Worst case scenario it ruins your carpet. Majority of the work here will be done on hardware side it seems.
There’s 0 code thus far. What “code” did exist is all just readme.md for various ros modules. Getting upset about the guy using ai seems a little premature.
They don’t have any code yet but 3 slopgen accounts are already connected. It’s worse, it’s actually worse.
There’s another repo with a Docker file and that was all written with Claude too for some reason. Though I don’t see why in the ever living fuck this would need Docker.
Also, why are we even getting excited over a vacuum cleaner existing as a pile of markdown files talking about it? There are lots of these, actually.
So? The repository is empty did you even check it. There is no code in it at all.
And 3 accounts are already “contributing”. That’s not better. It’s worse.
Yep, everyone updoot this so the ones who come after can stop reading at the top comment.
Downvoting you for writing updoot
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Damnit, you were supposed to be here three comments ago!
Is “OOMWOO” an onomatopoeia for a vacuum cleaner’s sounds?
Is there a word for a palindrome that works when you rotate it 180 degrees?
About the name: “oomwoo” is a rotational ambigram — it reads the same flipped 180°, just like the robot itself roaming your floor in every direction.
Taken from the blog post.
… oomwoo?
Sorry, I need to look this up on Squeam.
Hey, on Mreesh, somebody said its a scam!
… But then LikkiiLiikkii says its legit.
Hrm, I wonder what Gronk thinks…
About the name: “oomwoo” is a rotational ambigram — it reads the same flipped 180°, just like the robot itself roaming your floor in every direction.
Sorry I’m pretending to be a normal person, who is just like, trying to say and a remember a word.
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I’ve been interested in Kärcher since it’s German and has better privacy laws than the US branded stuff. But this would be interesting. The Kärcher though is on sale for $400USD on their site, tough to beat. 🤕
Might also take a look at the ones from Bosch. I got the Spotless Max (without cam) and am pretty happy with it. But I also got no comparison to competitors how they perform.
