A Verge story on hacking your robot vacuum so it doesn’t phone home.

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    1 year ago

    Idk, I use a $20 roomba from way before corporates realized they can collect crap via a fucking vacuum cleaner and were still kind enough to leave an available UART with well-documented api. A few more bucks spent on a esp8266, a logic level shifter and a dc-dc step-down, and you can integrate it into home assistant. Actually, I also had to 3d-print a few broken parts, but that’s on a case-by-case basis.

    Jokes aside, an interesting read; tnx for sharing.