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- Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish30 days
You can tell it’s a genuine high-quality open-source project because the name sucks
- bstix@feddit.dkEnglish29 days
Robot vacuum designers are limited to using only the “o” vowel. That’s just the way it is.
- Fmstrat@lemmy.worldEnglish29 days
About the name: “oomwoo” is a rotational ambigram — it reads the same flipped 180°, just like the robot itself roaming your floor in every direction.
There was an attempt.
- Mika@piefed.caEnglish29 days
Now we need to invent a recursive acronym for this name and it would be perfect
- 29 days
“Open OOMWOO Might Win Over Obstructions”
referring to the fact that these things often end up crashing into everything
- 30 days
I propose renaming it to SUCKS cos that’s what vacuums do.
- 29 days
That’s good.
I was thinking we could come up with an acronym resulting in suck
- 30 days
It’s called OOMWOO in all caps dude. My idea is, call it literally anything else. Also I’m getting one
- 29 days
I just want one where the storage the vac empties out into is on the side so it can slide under a couch.
These things take so much damn space and for some reason they didn’t figure out there is a bunch of real estate underneath shit.
- Bomnam@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish29 days
As time goes on I’m hoping more products like this that give what was once only possible via locked down proprietary software a new open and repairable life as theres many new products and tech that I see but could never use unless I’d want to just upload everything I do to whoevers servers and pray that they don’t get breached.
- 29 days
github
A user you’ve blocked has previously contributed to this repository.
look inside
claude
click insights
Top 3 committers is: some org account, another org account but with “.ai” in it, claudeEDIT: they are not only the top 3 committers, they are the only 3 committers
EDIT0: repo is all screenshots and markdown files, another one has a trivial amount of code also written with ai
- qwerty@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish29 days
I don’t see that as a problem. A vacuum cleaner isn’t critical infrastructure and shouldn’t be connected to the internet, so no security concerns. Worst case scenario it ruins your carpet. Majority of the work here will be done on hardware side it seems.
- AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish29 days
There’s 0 code thus far. What “code” does exist is all just readme.md for various ros modules. Getting upset about the guy using ai seems a little premature.
- Nalivai@lemmy.worldEnglish29 days
They don’t have any code yet but 3 slopgen accounts are already connected. It’s worse, it’s actually worse.
- BendingHawk@lemmy.worldEnglish29 days
Thank you for saving me the time I would have wasted getting excited about this
- JabbaTheThott@lemmy.worldEnglish29 days
Don’t use any operating systems and most major websites then because theyre all using a coding agent now. It’s just the way the industry is going at the moment
edit: Linux uses
Claudecopilot ffs. It needs to be noted as an AI contribution and needs human review but Linux and Windows definitely use AI coding agents and I guarantee Apple does too. Be in denial all you want. I’m not advocating for them, I’m stating the reality of the industry right now.
29 daysSo? The repository is empty did you even check it. There is no code in it at all.
- Nalivai@lemmy.worldEnglish29 days
And 3 accounts are already “contributing”. That’s not better. It’s worse.
- ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish30 days
3real5me…the amount of time and money needed to make even simple projects robust and truly usable, and not just a janky DIY job that needs to be used in just the right way or it’s wonky is always more than you expect. No matter how many times you’ve been through the process.
- elucubra@sopuli.xyzEnglish30 days
I tend to consider first attempts/versions as Betas. Sometimes I will do the full alpha, beta, RC cycle
Freedman has a pretty good video relating to this
Sick, but also in the mean time check out the Valetudo project
As i understand it Valetudo is not actually firmware to control the robot. It is a “parasite” that makes the existing robot firmware belive it is connected to the cloud which is very different from actually controlling and navigating the robot. However, in terms of homeasistant integration it could be worth getting inspired.
For a control operating system ROS could be something to consider. When I used it 10 years ago the project was quite unstable since tools changed constantly and it was overly complicated to work with, but a lot of development has happened since so maybe worth considering.I wrote this before reading the article- adeoxymus@lemmy.worldEnglish30 days
I love valetudo!
But I also think there should be more open source robotics, and a robot vacuum feels the right topic as a starting point.
I think I also saw someone that wanted to make a robot grass cutter.
- 30 days
This is why I love foss software. Their is some guy hacking away at some very specific problem in his own time and he shares it with the world for free. You will have never heard of this problem or even contemplated its existence but once u know some foss developer has solved it going back to a world where it doesn’t exist is just a little bit duller.
