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Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum — Meet OOMWOO (makerspet.com)
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[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 137 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

[–] LightDelaBlue@jlai.lu 2 points 1 hour ago

cry in voron 3d printer

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

I think my device is easy and intuitive to use. The user wants video instructions and refuses to use my thing otherwise :(

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Yeah, i mean, that's just how developing anything works, i think it shuld be something that people have to explain more when they introduce someone to the DIY world, if you expect to finish a product on the first iteration or the first few, you either gonna fail or you have set a low bar

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 14 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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/

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 9 points 9 hours ago

Which is basically only a on-device proxy to prevent communications.

But thanks.

[–] Dymonika@lemmy.ml 5 points 12 hours ago

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