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.

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