What do you get when you mix not wanting to do what you should be doing and not being able to do what you want to do coupled with a headache from hell and the threat of 12 more inches of snow over night?
Well with me you get me throwing little fake mouse toys at the cat and watching her chase them around and then turning on the iRobot Roomba and watching it chase her around[1]…
joe
[1] This appears to be its main functionality. It doesn’t really clean the rooms very well. The algorithm for its search and destroy mission on dirt I think needs a radical overhaul. Actually that would make an interesting video game in the vein of c++ robots… Make up a virtual room environment with a floor that needs to be vacuumed with all sorts of weird shapes etc in place like a real house has (versus an empty square room) and then have the game player program the logic to clean it as fast as possible. I am pretty sure the 45 minutes per room the Roomba is said to need will quickly lose that race.
