balanceboardblog.com - 8/24/2008
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We've seen a variety of Wii Balance Board hacks over the last few months, but this one has to be the most bizarre yet. One Japanese gentleman has used the Bluetooth capabilities of the Wii Balance Board with this Roomba (a normally-robotic vacuum cleaner) to help perform his household chores. Standing on the Balance Board on one side of the room, he shifts his weight to control the direction ...
kotaku.com - 8/24/2008
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kotaku.com —
This gentleman, "Ron" Tajima has managed a Balance
Board hack that manages to defeat the basic purpose...
of a Roomba's existence. But, it's awesome. He's used the Wii Balance Board's Bluetooth capability to link it with the poky-slow vacuum-cleaning ...
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Wii Roomba: Surf Your Way to Cleaner Floors
blog.katsuma.tv - 8/21/2008
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Man Controls Roomba With Wii Balance Board, Atari-Era Surfin' USA Soundtrack [Wii Roomba]
Gizmodo —
... board is great!" Indeed it is, Tajima-san, indeed it is. Maybe there's a reason for me to take the Balance Board out from underneath my TV and use it again. Now, this post is similar to Juan González did back in June with his robot, but we'd argue it lacks the personality of Tajima's cleaning creation, which combines vacuuming with limited physical fitness. And, let's face it, stumbling around Azeroth and Google Earth has nothing on a Roomba. [Wii Balance Board Blog via Kotaku]
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Roomba controlled by Wii Balance Board
MAKE Magazine: hacks —
... short on details, but he's using a laptop to read the bluetooth data from the Balance Board and then send control signals to the Roomba bluetooth adapter.
You might recognize Ron from some other Roomba hacks he's done. A while back, he showed how to control the Roomba with the Wiimote (similar to the balance board hack), but the real gem of his collection is Rommba PacMan:
"Ron" Tajima's video channel [via Balance Board Blog]
Control your Roomba with a Wii Balance Board
SlashGear —
... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLbprdjTX0w
[via BalanceBoardBlog]
Relevant Entries on SlashGear Njoy’s G-Board Balance Board Wii Fit Balance Board skins from AMR Racing ...
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