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FIGURE 16-2: Roomba Mind Control code stick being programmed

RoombaNet: Gumstix-Controlled Roomba

http://people.csail.mit.edu/bpadams/roomba/
The Gumstix boards were mentioned in Chapter 14 as a way to get an embedded Linux sys-
tem onto the Roomba. Bryan Adams, a graduate student at MIT at the time, now working at
iRobot, created what was perhaps the first Roomba ROI hack, which he called RoombaNet.
It consists of a Gumstix board, a Compact Flash Wi-Fi card, and a custom adapter board.
Figure 16-3 shows RoombaNet hooked up. It’s quite small. Figure 16-4 shows a closeup of his
board stack and you can see it’s just a little over an inch tall.

FIGURE 16-3: Tiny Wi-Fi Linux on a Roomba with RoombaNet