Totbot’s Hacking Roomba is now available for pre-order and the book teaches you to hack Roomba and make it sing, dance and do a variety of other functions and also change its brain.

With this book you can become a robotics Engineer and can build a Bluetooth interface for your Roomba and can also install Linux on it so as to give it a new brain.

Most important of them all none of the hacks will void your warranty.

The detail hacks that are covered in the book are:

• Build a serial interface tether.
• Set up a Bluetooth® interface.
• Drive Roomba.
• Play with sensors.
• Make it sing.
• Create a Roomba artist.
• Use your Roomba as a mouse.
• Connect Roomba to the Net.
• Wi-Fi your Roomba.
• Replace Roomba’s brain.
• Install Roomba-cam.
• Put Linux® on Roomba.
• Features a companion Web site.

Via: makezine