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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.
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Downvoting you for writing updoot
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Thank you for saving me the time I would have wasted getting excited about this
It’s open source. Feel free to write your own software, or pay someone to do it for you.
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
edit: Linux uses Claude ffs. It needs to be noted as an AI contribution and needs human review but Linux and Windows definitely use AI coding agents and I guarantee Apple does too. Be in denial all you want. I’m not advocating for them, I’m stating the reality of the industry right now.
Go tell this to a fencepost near your home.
Lemmy users don’t care about reality, you’re talking to a brick wall basically.
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.
Concept of a vacuum.
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.
At the risk of sounding like an ad, roborock (xiaomi) makes fantastic vacuums. Great navigation, great cleaning performance, obstacle avoidance (cables, socks, etc) depends on the model.
They do offer a meter interface if you want to have it offline, but I’m quite happy with the (cloud based) app, allows a bit more control.
It integrates with home assistant but it sometimes goes “unavailable”, the matter integration is a bit more stable for that.
I sure other manufacturers also have great ones, check “vacuum wars” on YouTube.
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.
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.
The roller has been solved a few years ago. The split-roller design doesn’t need any maintenance, no hair tangles in the two years I owned mine. Plenty of robots use it, as the patent expired.
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)!
3real5me…the amount of time and money needed to make even simple projects robust and truly usable, and not just a janky DIY job that needs to be used in just the right way or it’s wonky is always more than you expect. No matter how many times you’ve been through the process.
I think my device is easy and intuitive to use. The user wants video instructions and refuses to use my thing otherwise :(
I tend to consider first attempts/versions as Betas. Sometimes I will do the full alpha, beta, RC cycle
Freedman has a pretty good video relating to this
I would actually be more interested in custom firmware for our old touch-and-go Roomba. The hardware is great, fully modular, did even survive a round of cat barf and washing. But the firmware is buggy and does inefficient vacuuming rounds.
I would actually be more interested in custom firmware for our old touch-and-go Roomba
The only thing out there that I know of is https://valetudo.cloud/
Which is basically only a on-device proxy to prevent communications.
But thanks.
Ha, let’s hope that doesn’t happen here. This is genuinely exciting.
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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.
You can tell it’s a genuine high-quality open-source project because the name sucks
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.
There was an attempt.
Can’t wait to hear your marketing ideas
OOMWOO just sounds like a fake AliExpress brand.
It’s called OOMWOO in all caps dude. My idea is, call it literally anything else. Also I’m getting one
The name apparently is a rotational ambigram. I would have sworn it was a transdimensional mammogram
That’s actually pretty cool once you know about it.
How about WOOOOM
It holds all the dust in its WOMB!
Why not MOOOOW?
that one goes on the lawn.
Or vwoomba
UwUmba?
If that way the case, in keeping with open source tradition, it should be the Uwumba
Yes, it was a latin v
Something much better like eufy? Or roomba?
I think it’s a law that robot vacuums must be named something silly.
I have no objections. If it doesn’t connect to the wider internet, could be cool
Like, even just SelfVac or whatever would be good…
People love a good innuendo
“I’ve been SelfVack’n it all day long.”
VacBot, HoovrBot AutoVac, AutoHoovr…there’s just so many options for names that describe what it is
YOURMOMMA
We’ve done it. Look no further
I propose renaming it to SUCKS cos that’s what vacuums do.
OpenSuck™
That’s good.
I was thinking we could come up with an acronym resulting in suck
Sick, but also in the mean time check out the Valetudo project
Looks pretty cool but a very short list of compatible devices. Also, what they consider “budget options” are not what I would consider “in my price range”. LoL 😂
What is your price range, a button and two shells? The S5 can be found for 50 bucks used.
I love valetudo!
But I also think there should be more open source robotics, and a robot vacuum feels the right topic as a starting point.
I think I also saw someone that wanted to make a robot grass cutter.
As i understand it Valetudo is not actually firmware to control the robot. It is a “parasite” that makes the existing robot firmware belive it is connected to the cloud which is very different from actually controlling and navigating the robot. However, in terms of homeasistant integration it could be worth getting inspired.
For a control operating system ROS could be something to consider. When I used it 10 years ago the project was quite unstable since tools changed constantly and it was overly complicated to work with, but a lot of development has happened since so maybe worth considering.I wrote this before reading the articleThis is why I love foss software. Their is some guy hacking away at some very specific problem in his own time and he shares it with the world for free. You will have never heard of this problem or even contemplated its existence but once u know some foss developer has solved it going back to a world where it doesn’t exist is just a little bit duller.
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.
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.
O M O
O W OI heard it runs on UWU/Linux
I’m surprised they didn’t go for more of a wide-mouth D bot design like the old neatos did. And a pi5 is hardly affordable in 2026. If it’s local only, does it really need the processing power of a pi? It’ll be on a home network with something running homeassistant anyway. Give it a dumb controller and make it like a wireless klipper bot, the heavy lifting done on the server.
They do mention it is undecided yet and an esp32 is an option. For me that would be ideal but I can also imagine some devs just want some kind of linux where they can run python scripts on.
Or even a zero 2w
i ordered one of those two months ago and the expected delivery date in 2027…
Dude go to microcenter. Or get an orangepi or radxa board.
man i wish we had those in the eu. them and jeff geerling
