Vacuum-Cleaning Robot

Recently my wife wished for a new cleaning robot.

But what to do with the old one?…

My parents refused to use it for testing.

…so, what to do?…

Throw it away?

…Noooo

It would be fun to reprogram the robot and let it do other things than cleaning.

As I don’t have a clue how to hack into the existing controller I plan to remove it completely and use an Arduino instead.

Meanwhile the source is available on GitHub.

to be continued…

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  Disassembling the Bagotte BL50931. December 2020
  The first adventure was to disassemble the whole robot. It worked well and I’m sure to be able to reassemble it again 😉 The robot has a lot of sensors…Continue readingDisassembling the Bagotte BL509
• We need a Micrcontroller and a Motor driver31. December 2020
  After I found out, that the Bagotte motors will also run with 12V I planned the Microcontroller I’m going to use. I decided to order the old Adafruit motor shield…Continue readingWe need a Micrcontroller and a Motor driver
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  First test with Arduino8. January 2021
  For a first test I connected the main wheels and the placement sensors to the motor shield. If written a short sketch to let the motors run only if the…Continue readingFirst test with Arduino
• First adventure…11. January 2021
  …or: to the wall and back again. I screwed the shell on to the robot and written a short code to detect if the bumper touches the wall. With the…Continue readingFirst adventure…
• Robot code on GitHub17. January 2021
  If you like to investigate the Arduino source, visit the online repository for VacRobot. The robot now does not immediately start. If the button near the green LED is pushed…Continue readingRobot code on GitHub