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Headless Raspberry Pi Setup With PiBakery

I thought I’d write up the steps I’d take to set up the Raspberry Pi 3 I’m using on my Roomba, including wifi and the rest, then discovered PiBakery and frankly this post writes itself!PiBakery is a tool for Windows and Mac which makes configuring a new Pi a block based affair.  It keeps up to date […]

Project Bumblebee Videos

While I was doing the initial tinkering with the Roomba to figure out what made it tick I made a load of video logs more for my reference than anything.  I’ve put them up on YouTube and will have to remember to carry on doing them…

1st Gen Roomba Overview

Before I can rebuild Bumblebee, my 1st generation Roomba, I need to figure out how he works.  I’m going to split this into three sections; Power , motors and sensors.  I’m going to cover how to interface with each of these in future posts. Power This was simple enough, I charged the battery and put […]

Project Bumblebee

Bumblebee?   Bumblebee is my Roomba, so named as long ago he lost his voice.  About a year ago his logic board started playing up and though he was still able to clean, at the end of each cleaning cycle he wouldn’t go into standby and his battery would drain in no time.  At that […]