Turning a Broken Vacuum Into a Custom Mobile Robot
When an electronic gadget breaks, what do you do with it? Most people would toss it in the garbage and buy a new one — but not a hardware hacker. Anyone 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. He simply repurposed it. After putting some work into it, Mayer now has a remote-controlled robotics platform that has learned a lot of new tricks — even if it can’t clean the floors anymore.
A closer look at the hardware (📷: element14 presents)
The foundation of the project is a broken robot vacuum...
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