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Awesome. I had a similar idea. Maybe we could join forces one day?... I thought about hacking and modding existing robots (I have one at home that has great ha

Awesome. I had a similar idea. Maybe we could join forces one day?... I thought about hacking and modding existing robots (I have one at home that has great hardware, but the software is terrible!). Definitely set up a Liberapay account to get support (if you need economic support), although I guess most people would want to see proof of concept first. One thing that would be great is to crowdsource the software, and maybe the training data for ML. The open source community got together and made the top chess and go engines with community GPU training, why not do the same for robot vacuums? Good luck! :)

Wolley 3y ago
Thanks! Sure, there's a lot of more work to do, especially the software for the "brain". I have mostly focused on the mechanics and electronics since that's the most exciting/new for me. I will in a couple of months have a skeleton/chassi finished and then the "only" thing left is to write the software to make it autonomous. The idea is to keep it really simple in the beginning and let it run on a Raspberry Pi Zero W. Using a Raspberry Pi opens up the platform for more people and software. Yes, I would want to have something that works fine before starting to sell components, parts or accepting donations etc.