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• Vacuuming made fun when Pac-Man meets Roomba

  
  Joystiq — Authority: 790
  Who knew the robotic vacuum Roomba could do so much? In addition to automatically cleaning floors and killing kittens , the Roomba vacuum can also be used to play an elaborate version of Pac-Man . Developed by Jack Elston, Cory Dixon and Maciej Stachura, Roomba Pac-Man is meant to demonstrate the teams "Unmanned ...
  2 hours ago

• Roomba Cleaning Robot Modded as a Roomba Pac-man

  
  Hardware Sphere — Authority: 594
  A bunch of clever developers have hacked 5 Roombas into a Roomba Pac-man games complete with the Inky, Pinky, Blinky and Clyde Ghost buddies. The Rooma Pac-man will work just like the real Pac-man game. It must avoid the ghosts while trying to gulp all the pellets, If captured by the ghost, the Pac-Man will lost ...
  9 hours ago

• Roomba Pac-Man Game Makes Me Vacuum More Than Once a Year

  
  GEARFUSE — Authority: 673
  I’ve never claimed to be the most hygienic blogger among us, nor have I claimed to vacuum my humble apartment as regularly as I should, but I imagine if I had a cleaning rig like this, I might just set-out to clean my home at least once a week. Utilizing five different Roombas instead of only one, which we’ve ...
  22 hours ago

• Roombas with UAV Brains Play Pac-Man

  
  Hack a Day — Authority: 694
   [Jack], [Cory], and [Maciej] are playing Pac-Man with Roombas on a lab floor. The Roombas are outfitted with ALIX3d2 single board computers running Gentoo and a software suite developed for UAVs at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles . The ...
  22 hours ago

• Roomba Pac-Man Is Pac-Man In Real Life

  
  BotJunkie — Authority: 651
  “What better use for automatic home appliances than to have them chase each other in classic video game style? “ Pacmba may have been a Roomba that looked like Pac-Man, but for all intents and purposes, these iRobot Create robots are the game of Pac-Man. There’s Inky, and Blinky and Pinky and Clyde, ...
  23 hours ago

• Roomba Pac-Man

  
  Robot Living — Authority: 463
  I suppose the system above has some real world application, but we don’t care about that.  Watch as a Roomba turned into Pac-Man gets chased by the fully autonomous Inky, Pinky, Blinky, and Clyde.For more info check out the project website  Pac-Man Roomba.Link via (Engadget)
  1 day ago

• Roomba Pac-Man

  
  Popular Fidelity — Authority: 558
  There have been Roomba Pac-Mans before, but never one quite like this.  Using five Roombas, special software codes, and a whole lot of time, three students have designed a live-action, 3-D version of Pac-Man .  The ghosts chase Pac-Roomba, which is controlled by joystick.  When the Pac-Roomba hits one of the ...
  1 day ago

• Roomba Pacman Game Makes Me Want to Clean My Home

  
  Walyou — Authority: 715
  This cool presentation shows an intricate Roomba Pacman Game that was finely tuned to have Pacman both play the actual game and make sure to clean up as he runs his rounds. Unlike the previous Pacman Roomba Vacuum we seen, this specific video presents the original Pacman Game being played utilizing 5 separate ...
  1 day ago

• Roomba Vacuum Cleaners Play Pac-Man [Video]

  
  Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — Authority: 440
  In the above video several iRobot machines are dressed up like Pac Man characters. The robots are dressed like Pac Man, Inky, Pinky, Blinky, and Clyde. The robots report their location to a computer and displays them on the software. The iRobot vacuum cleaners eat up the paper. The Roomba Pac Man experiment was ...
  1 day ago

• Pac-Man as Played On a Bunch of Modified Roomba Vacuums

  
  Internet Siao — Authority: 131
  The Roomba is an autonomous vacuum cleaner that moves on its own and avoiding obstacles while vacuuming up dirt in the house. With their mobility system already in place, these bunch of Roomba vacuum cleaners got pimped up with a bunch of decorations and a special software that transform them into a classic game of ...
  1 day ago

• Dustbusting Blinkys Got Pac-Roomba on the Run [Oddities]

  
  Kotaku — Authority: 821
  Roomba Pac-Man? Done before , but mostly as a cosmetic enhancement. Here its taken to the next level - five Roombas ( Roombi? Roombae, thanks Greentrace ) engaged in a contest of Pac-Man with programmed "chase" and "escape" AI. Roomba Pac-Man [site, via RipTen ]
  1 day ago

• Pac-Man Hacked Roombas Mix Futuristic Cleaning with Retro Gaming

  
  Ripten Video Game Blog — Authority: 564
  Hate sitting on your couch watching your Roomba do all the work? Boring you say? You could get off your ass and do it yourself, but that would require actual work. No sweat. A team of geeked-out developers with cleaning fetish hacked into a few Roomba units and dressed them up like Pac-Man, Pinky, Blinky, and Clyde. ...
  1 day ago

• Roombas Playing Pac-Man

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 790
  ( YouTube Link ) Three computer scientists at Colorado University programmed several Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners to act like Pac-Man and the ghosts which chase him. Jack Elston, Cory Dixon, and Maciej Stachura did so in order to demonstrate the unmanned aerial system that they are developing. Click on the link ...
  1 day ago

• Pac-Man Roomba

  
  Pixelated Geek — Authority: 146
  Click here to view the embedded video. I’ve seen people all over YouTube do some pretty geeky hacks to their Roombas .  From making it play mario music to giving cats a piggy back ride. But this is the best and most complex hack I’ve seen with a Roomba so far. Program 5 Roombas to play a huge game of Pac-Man ...
  1 day ago

• Finally, a way to clean up all those dots...

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 734
  Roomba Pac-Man! Weve already discussed modding Roombas and Roomba art , but now these guys have made a fully playable real-life Pac-Man game using everyones favorite robotic vacuum cleaner.
  1 day ago

• Finally, Roombas enacting a game of Pac-Man

  
  CrunchGear — Authority: 799
  Yes. It is finished. We can shut down NASA, DARPA, all the arts and sciences, and stop trying now. The pinnacle of human achievement has been reached. Robot vacuums have been hacked to play the parts in a real-life game of Pac-Man. The ghosts are actually moving autonomously along computer-defined lines (they can’t ...
  1 day ago

• Roomba Pac-Man

  
  (jeff)isageek.net — Authority: 477
  Now this is a great hack using roomba’s and everyones favorite little pellet eating/ghost chasing Pac-Man. Very kool!!! You can also find out more information here at the project website . [ via ]
  1 day ago

• Roombas Do Pac-Man

  
  Botropolis — Authority: 579
  A team of developers had some fun hacking five Roombas to create a new version of the Pac-Man game. The Pac-Man bot sucks up white rectangles while being chased by robot Inky, Pinky, Blinky, and Clyde. When Pac-Man finds a power pellet the ghostly Roombas turn blue and start running away. It’s meant to be a ...
  1 day ago

• Video: Hacked Roombas Used to Play Pac-Man, Finally! [Roomba]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 897
  It was only a matter of time, right? Check out this setup where a laptop player controls "Pac-Man" while being chased by robo-vacuum ghosts. And get this: its actually a demo of their unmanned aerial software that guides airborne vehicles. Thats why the red tape marking the maze is really only there for the video. ...
  1 day ago

• PacMan Roomba Will Clean Your Floor Or Just Eat Ghosts

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 760
  A team of developers, looking to prove that their Unmanned Aerial System Suite is designed for top notch guidance of airborne vehicles have taken a unique approach, turning a set of Roomba floor cleaning systems into a larger than life version of the popular game PacMan. The system works by allowing users to view a ...
  1 day ago

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