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=====Roomba - The Robot vacuum cleaner experience===== | =====Roomba - The Robot vacuum cleaner experience===== | ||
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====What is that thing?==== | ====What is that thing?==== | ||
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Another matte problem shows itself, when the matte is a lightweight matte (non rubber). Here Roomba tends to push the matte around, instead of vacuuming it. We have solved this problem by sticking the matte to the floorboards using tesafix.\\ | Another matte problem shows itself, when the matte is a lightweight matte (non rubber). Here Roomba tends to push the matte around, instead of vacuuming it. We have solved this problem by sticking the matte to the floorboards using tesafix.\\ | ||
The above image to the left illustrates our front door matte, which has a light enough shade of gray for Roomba to work with. The right one shows our sticky mattes. | The above image to the left illustrates our front door matte, which has a light enough shade of gray for Roomba to work with. The right one shows our sticky mattes. | ||
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====Furniture==== | ====Furniture==== | ||
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- | Some furnitures has legs not exactly high enough for Roomba to run under. This can easily be solved, using leg extensions. | + | Some furnitures has legs not exactly high enough for Roomba to run under. This can easily be solved, using leg extensions. |
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- | If you do not wish to use leg extensions | + | Even though Roomba 560 has wall sensors making it slow down as it approaches a wall, it may not work as well as you could wish for in all cases. For instance if the object Roomba is approaching has a very dark color (same problem as with the cliff sensors) or if it is approaching at an angle. Therefore, |
====Virtual wall/ | ====Virtual wall/ | ||
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| Timetable | | Timetable | ||
^ Livingroom | ^ Livingroom | ||
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^ Finished | ^ Finished | ||
^ Dock | 13:20 | 16:13 | ^ Dock | 13:20 | 16:13 | ||
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+ | ====Functions==== | ||
+ | Roomba 560 can run in various modes: | ||
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+ | **Standard clean:** Starting Roomba from the docking station (home base) it will clean all rooms defined by the lighthouses (or the entire area available to it) until its battery is almost run dry. It will then return to its home base on its own to recharge, ready for the next go. | ||
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+ | **Programming: | ||
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+ | **Manually started cleaning:** Roomba can be transported to the room you wish to have cleaned and be started here manually. You can define the room border by setting the lighthouse to " | ||
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+ | **Spot clean:** If you have a small area you wish to have cleaned you can place Roomba in the middle of it and select spot clean. Roomba will then clean in a small outwards spiral, returning back into the centre of the spiral when finished. | ||
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+ | **Dock:** Pressing this will cause Roomba to start searching for its home base. This works best if you place the robot very close to the home base. You have to dock Roomba in this way, and not by placing it in its dock, if Roomba is to register that it is now docked. Otherwise it will start the next clean as if it was out of the home base. This can cause some problems, but we have found that if Roomba will not recognise its dock, you can " | ||
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+ | ====Final notes==== | ||
+ | iRobot Roomba 560 can be bought in Denmark at [[http:// | ||
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+ | Also please be aware that new models may be released in which improvements and corrections are implemented, |
roomba/roomba.txt · Last modified: 2009/03/19 12:19 by tine