{"id":249,"date":"2007-09-26T15:56:31","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T14:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/26\/robots-from-the-future-are-cleaning-my-house\/"},"modified":"2007-09-26T15:56:31","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T14:56:31","slug":"robots-from-the-future-are-cleaning-my-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/26\/robots-from-the-future-are-cleaning-my-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Robots from the future are cleaning my house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official, we&#8217;re living in the future. I now own a robot which vacuums my house!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GbUpZIGsH48?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Check it out! Isn&#8217;t it awesome?! It makes such cute noises too! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>For those of your who don&#8217;t know or haven&#8217;t guessed, the Roomba is a cleaning robot that automatically vacuums your house. It&#8217;s about a foot in diameter and as you can tell by the video, it&#8217;s pretty quiet compared to a full size vacuum.<\/p>\n<p>Inside it, it&#8217;s got two counter rotating brushes which pick up large bits of dirt, then behind that, there is a vacuum which sucks up the remaining dust. It&#8217;s a pretty clever system because it means the vacuum doesn&#8217;t have to be as powerful. Oh yeah, and it&#8217;s got like robot AI n&#8217;shit. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I put the charging station under the cupboard at the back, so it&#8217;s got it&#8217;s own little home \ud83d\ude42 When it&#8217;s done cleaning, or when it needs recharging, it automatically finds it way back and docks \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>When it first arrived, I was so excited! Now, I&#8217;m not an extremely excitable person, but I have to admit, when I first saw Roomba go, I actually (yes, for really reals yo) jumped up and down with excitement! \ud83d\ude42 When it&#8217;s backing off it&#8217;s docking station it makes a beep beep reversing noise like a lorry does, it&#8217;s pretty cute.. then when it&#8217;s done cleaning and it&#8217;s docked successfully, it plays a little happy &#8220;Tar dar, I&#8217;m done!&#8221; tune.. It&#8217;s like the pet I never had! Plus, it&#8217;s cleaning the house! I heart Roomba. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>In other related news, I also ordered myself a RooTooth. This is a Roomba bluetooth interface that plugs into Roomba&#8217;s little expansion port, so now I can hack it with my PC, mobile or other bluetooth devices \ud83d\ude42 Watch this space for a mobile phone controlled Roomba rolling around my house \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official, we&#8217;re living in the future. I now own a robot which vacuums my house!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shiny-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}