The world has needed it for printers for decades.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I need tgat for Roombas.
Decq@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hasn’t this problem long been solved in roomba’s? Mine is about 8 years old and it doesn’t go around randomly. I assumed all new models don’t do that anymore, except for some very cheap off brand vacuum robots.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I mean the open firmware. And mine is older.
Decq@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Yes that would be nice to have. Sadly when I bought my Roomba I didn’t care too much about that. My next one will be hackable though.
DrunkenPirate@feddit.org 21 hours ago
You can’t compare indoors and outdoors directly. I think random has its means in an uneven environment. It simply doesn’t matter if the odometry sucks, if the wheels stick in muddy earth or small sticks block on side.
Advanced sensors such as GPS and cam isn’t very precise outdoors. That’s why newer models come with its own positioning sender.
Decq@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I was mostly talking about roombas/indoor. For outdoors you have GPS with RTK which most mowers use that work without a boundary wire, afaik.
digger@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Check out Valetudo.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s so ironic that valetudo doesn’t support roomba considering roombas used to be a hackable robotics platform, even selling the robots without the vacuum components, with many models of vacuums shipping with serial ports right on top.
besmtt@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Been using valetudo for years. Love it.