inari@piefed.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoBuilding an Open-Source Robot Vacuum — Meet OOMWOOmakerspet.comexternal-linkmessage-square145linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareprenatal_confusion@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoThe 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.
minus-squareDr. Moose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoYou still have to empty the station tho
minus-squareprenatal_confusion@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoI do that three times a year. It works for me.
minus-squareDr. Moose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoNo way you change the stinky dirty water only once every four months?
minus-squareD_C@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoSame. Though I’m not a vacuum cleaner, I just eat a lot. And I will also cry.
minus-squareinari@piefed.zipOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoDoesn’t that lock you in to a specific type of bag that only the robot manufacturer creates?
minus-squareprenatal_confusion@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoIt 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.
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.
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.
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.