Hacking Roomba

While the microcontroller inside the Roomba is too tiny to run a full operating system like Linux, there are several small and cheap Linux-capable boards that you can discretely fit on top of the Roomba.

Stay tuned for code downloads of an OpenWrt-based Linux system to control your Roomba! (or get the book :-)

For now, if you’re experienced with OpenWrt and C, you can get the “roombacmd” C library from the SVN repository and the ipkg package control files:

• roombacmd svn
• roombacmd ipkg