You can tell it’s a genuine high-quality open-source project because the name sucks
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.
Now we need to invent a recursive acronym for this name and it would be perfect
“Open OOMWOO Might Win Over Obstructions”
referring to the fact that these things often end up crashing into everything
Can’t wait to hear your marketing ideas
It’s called OOMWOO in all caps dude. My idea is, call it literally anything else. Also I’m getting one
How about WOOOOM
Or vwoomba
UwUmba?
Lumisal beat you to it, sorry buddy
If that way the case, in keeping with open source tradition, it should be the Uwumba
Yes, it was a latin v
Why not MOOOOW?
that one goes on the lawn.
We gotta reserve this for a future sibling that cut the grass
It holds all the dust in its WOMB!
The name apparently is a rotational ambigram. I would have sworn it was a transdimensional mammogram
That’s actually pretty cool once you know about it.
Something much better like eufy? Or roomba?
I think it’s a law that robot vacuums must be named something silly.
I have no objections. If it doesn’t connect to the wider internet, could be cool
OOMWOO just sounds like a fake AliExpress brand.
Like, even just SelfVac or whatever would be good…
VacBot, HoovrBot AutoVac, AutoHoovr…there’s just so many options for names that describe what it is
Ooh, I really like “AutoVac!”
How about
iSuckTM
🤣
“I’ve been SelfVack’n it all day long.”
People love a good innuendo
YOURMOMMA
We’ve done it. Look no further
But muh rotational-symmetry.
Robot vacuum designers are limited to using only the “o” vowel. That’s just the way it is.
It’s like carcinization, all robot vacuum names eventually become “voov”
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.
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
Yeah, i mean, that’s just how developing anything works, i think it shuld be something that people have to explain more when they introduce someone to the DIY world, if you expect to finish a product on the first iteration or the first few, you either gonna fail or you have set a low bar
I think my device is easy and intuitive to use. The user wants video instructions and refuses to use my thing otherwise :(
I would actually be more interested in custom firmware for our old touch-and-go Roomba. The hardware is great, fully modular, did even survive a round of cat barf and washing. But the firmware is buggy and does inefficient vacuuming rounds.
I would actually be more interested in custom firmware for our old touch-and-go Roomba
The only thing out there that I know of is https://valetudo.cloud/
Which is basically only a on-device proxy to prevent communications.
But thanks.
Ha, let’s hope that doesn’t happen here. This is genuinely exciting.
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O M O
O W OI heard it runs on UWU/Linux
… oomwoo?
Sorry, I need to look this up on Squeam.
Hey, on Mreesh, somebody said its a scam!
… But then LikkiiLiikkii says its legit.
Hrm, I wonder what Gronk thinks…
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.
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We trained him wrong, as a joke!
Sorry I’m pretending to be a normal person, who is just like, trying to say and a remember a word.
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.
Delete this comment, sell idea to a company, profit! But in all seriousness this is a smart idea.
Need to do this with a lot of home appliances.
Looking for ways to keep my old one running as long as possible. it’s that roboroc xiaomi platform and it has been supper easy to get spare parts. I replaced entire wheel sections batteries and such.
There is a software that replaces the Xiaomi app and that would be the next project.
No need to phone home to china all the time.
What software?
I think this one
https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/supported-robots/
Needs a custom firmware installed. But then I am free to use it even if the official app no longer exists.
Can confirm it works and is great. I’m even running a Glados voice pack on it that insults me while it cleans.
Only issue I’ve had the whole time was actually this week when I finally updated the valetudo re version to support the new home assistant MQTT format and the update got stuck but that was an easy fix once I worked out what it was.
Can it say ouch when you kick it or say let me down when you pick it up?
I did try the ‘ouch’ feature and that was fun for all of 10 minutes and then it moved very quickly into annoying so that feature got disabled.
This is it. I’ve done it last month, and besides having all the control of my s7, I swear that the robot is faster??!
I love this! I’ll be following along :)
I’m surprised they didn’t go for more of a wide-mouth D bot design like the old neatos did. And a pi5 is hardly affordable in 2026. If it’s local only, does it really need the processing power of a pi? It’ll be on a home network with something running homeassistant anyway. Give it a dumb controller and make it like a wireless klipper bot, the heavy lifting done on the server.
They do mention it is undecided yet and an esp32 is an option. For me that would be ideal but I can also imagine some devs just want some kind of linux where they can run python scripts on.
Or even a zero 2w
i ordered one of those two months ago and the expected delivery date in 2027…
Dude go to microcenter. Or get an orangepi or radxa board.
man i wish we had those in the eu. them and jeff geerling
You are in the eu? Fuck, look at radxa. They have fantastic shit that’s impossible to get in the US.
damn, i didn’t know, thanks!
While this is a cool idea, if you read the article, it’s only an idea. Seems like nothing but a reference design has actually been made. Hoping to see it progress, but we shall see.
Concept of a vacuum.
Yeah, over the years I’ve learned to not hold my breath about any interesting announcement. Though I’m at the point now where I don’t really care either way and feel like pointing it out for any specific project just feels overly pessimistic. Just let them cook or contribute knowing there’s never a guarantee it’ll come to fruition.
The game changer in robot vacs for me was the emptying station. My first one didn’t have it and it just sat in the corner. Full.
Same.
Though I’m not a vacuum cleaner, I just eat a lot. And I will also cry.Doesn’t that lock you in to a specific type of bag that only the robot manufacturer creates?
It does but I am still on my first ten pack so …
Also there are for sure some alternative bags, I just didn’t put time in to find them.
Shark robot vacuums don’t use bags at least
You still have to empty the station tho
I do that three times a year. It works for me.
No way you change the stinky dirty water only once every four months?
Ah, mine does vacuum only :)
Dreamee 10 pro
I’ve been interested in Kärcher since it’s German and has better privacy laws than the US branded stuff. But this would be interesting. The Kärcher though is on sale for $400USD on their site, tough to beat. 🤕
with a name like that, I really hope that it has a boot-up sound option where it makes an awoo boot noise.
Ooh, this might be a great project for my wife and I to build together
I can’t even get my wife to build a Lego set with me 🤣
Oh the physical part is all me, she just wants to do the computer stuff lol. But yeah she’s been interested in some projects where she can program and I can build.
I’ve got to share time on the 3d printer now she’s got the hang of it, we don’t have room for 2. But it’s still great to see!
If I have an old Roomba can I hack a new brain into it? I’ve got a Raspberry Pi and a soldering iron and a willingness to break them for science. Never done much hardware hacking though.
Technically yes GPIO -> pin headers of each physical control.
