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Roomba Terminal is an application written in Visual Basic .NET. Also part of Roomba Terminal
is Roomba Monitor, an application to display various Roomba statistics and serve as a tool to
spy on the Roomba and run macros.
Figure 16-9 shows the Roomba Terminal main screen, allowing you to drive Roomba and read
its sensors. Figure 16-10 shows the Sensors screen of Roomba Terminal and some of the more
advanced actions that can be performed.

FIGURE 16-9: Roomba Terminal, using RoombaFX

SCI Tester

http://www.roombadevtools.com/productcart/pc/content_software.asp

Also for Windows, RoombaDevTools.com has created a simple Roomba SCI tester applica-
tion with Visual Basic 6 source code (see Figure 16-11). It’s called SCI Tester because it was
created back when the ROI was called the SCI. It works with any of the Roomba interface
products that RoombaDevTools sells, as well as the serial tether or Bluetooth adapter presented
in Chapters 3 and 4. You can use the SCI Tester as an independent software verification of
your interface hardware, if you’re unsure of code you write.