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inari@piefed.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum — Meet OOMWOO

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inari@piefed.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum — Meet OOMWOO - Makers Pet
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I’m starting a new build-in-public project: oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself. Raspberry Pi, ROS 2, 2D LiDAR, Home Assistant, 3D printed, local-first — and open from the first commit.
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    It’s called OOMWOO in all caps dude. My idea is, call it literally anything else. Also I’m getting one

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      How about WOOOOM

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        Or vwoomba

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          UwUmba?

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            Lumisal beat you to it, sorry buddy

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          If that way the case, in keeping with open source tradition, it should be the Uwumba

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            Yes, it was a latin v

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        Why not MOOOOW?

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          that one goes on the lawn.

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          We gotta reserve this for a future sibling that cut the grass

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        It holds all the dust in its WOMB!

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      The name apparently is a rotational ambigram. I would have sworn it was a transdimensional mammogram

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        That’s actually pretty cool once you know about it.

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      Something much better like eufy? Or roomba?

      I think it’s a law that robot vacuums must be named something silly.

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      I have no objections. If it doesn’t connect to the wider internet, could be cool

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