How a Hacker Turned a Broken Robot Vacuum Into a Custom Mobile Robot With a Raspberry Pi
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Hardware hacker Clem Mayer repurposed a broken robot vacuum into a custom DIY remote-control robotics platform using a Raspberry Pi. Rather than discarding the device when it lost its vacuuming ability, he salvaged the useful components and transformed it into something new, demonstrating the maker ethos of repair and repurposing.
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· 3 pulledAnyone who is comfortable with a soldering iron and a multimeter knows that there are still useful components inside the case.
And just because a device no longer serves its original purpose doesn't mean it can't be repurposed for something else.
Clem Mayer is well aware of this fact, so when his robot vacuum lost the ability to actually vacuum, he knew all was not lost.
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