Macs Used for Roomba Hacks at Maker Faire 2007

Maker Faire is an amazing event held annually in San Mateo, Calif. where people from all over the place come together to show off the crazy hardware hacks and contraptions they’ve cobbled together. As you might expect, it’s not actually a Mac-heavy location. If you aren’t building your computer from spare parts you found in the neighbor’s trash, you’re sort of a second-class citizen.

Anyway, I went on Saturday, and met up with Tod Kurt, author of Hacking Roomba and the Todbot blog, who was showing off the latest and greatest in mods to make your robot vacuum cleaner do things it was never designed to, like play a sad sort of vacuum music or even act as a giant spirograph doodler (pic after the jump). Best of all, Tod and his boothmate, from the company he runs, ThingM, were an all-Mac shop. Hacking Roombas is great. Doing it with Macs is even better. It’s all very easy over Bluetooth, apparently.

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