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If all he needed to do was to show some movement of the tracker, he could have just duct-taped it to a Roomba. He'd get much more realistic motion with much le
by kodis 12y ago
If all he needed to do was to show some movement of the tracker, he could have just duct-taped it to a Roomba. He'd get much more realistic motion with much less effort.
- pinko 12y agoGreat idea except for the battery life. He presumably wanted more than a few hours of activity.
- blfr 12y agoDoesn't roomba charge itself and then go for another run?
- batguano 12y agoThis issue is charging the ankle bracelet, not the roomba (which connects itself to a charger as you point out).
- Fiahil 12y agoWell, I guess you could plug the bracelet to a power source with a long cord.
- sjs382 12y agoIt makes its way back to the dock, but the model I own doesn't start again as soon as it's charged.
- delecti 12y agoThe monitor needed to be charged as well. So while the roomba would be charged, the monitor could very well die and cause the same suspicion as if it were off.
- randall 12y agoOr a ceiling fan?
- clay_to_n 12y agoYes! Came here to suggest that. Charging the monitor is an issue I didn't think about.
- AnkhMorporkian 12y ago"Chief, it appears the subject has been walking into a wall repeatedly for the past 2 hours."
- Fiahil 12y agoBrilliant idea!
- cpeterso 12y agoBLDG BLOG riffs on the Roomba idea: the idea of faking your own location through attaching your GPS anklet to a Roomba, for example, and letting it wander around the house all day is perversely brilliant, like something from a 21st-century Alfred Hitchcock film. Of course, it wouldn't take very long to deduce from the algorithmically perfect straight lines and zig-zag edge geometry of your Roomba's movements that it is not, in fact, a real person walking around in there—or perhaps it would just look like you've taken up some bizarre new form of home exercise. But a much more believable algorithm for faking the movements of a real, living resident could be part of some dark-market firmware update—new algorithms for the becoming-criminal of everyday machines. http://bldgblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/ghosts-of-home-geography.html http://bldgblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/ghosts-of-home-geogra...