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.

But muh rotational-symmetry.

Robot vacuum designers are limited to using only the "o" vowel. That's just the way it is.

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.

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.

Ha, let's hope that doesn't happen here. This is genuinely exciting.

cry in voron 3d printer

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 article

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.

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 😂

https://www.opensourceecology.org/gvcs/

The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts. We’re developing open source industrial machines that can be made at a fraction of commercial costs, and sharing our designs online for free.

Thank you for saving me the time I would have wasted getting excited about this

Yep, everyone updoot this so the ones who come after can stop reading at the top comment.

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.

So? The repository is empty did you even check it. There is no code in it at all.

Ty 😊

Be kind, vacuum my floor

Delete this comment, sell idea to a company, profit! But in all seriousness this is a smart idea.

I heard it runs on UWU/Linux

What software?

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