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inari@piefed.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum — Meet OOMWOO

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Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum — Meet OOMWOO

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inari@piefed.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum — Meet OOMWOO - Makers Pet
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I’m starting a new build-in-public project: oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself. Raspberry Pi, ROS 2, 2D LiDAR, Home Assistant, 3D printed, local-first — and open from the first commit.
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    Can’t wait to hear your marketing ideas

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      It’s called OOMWOO in all caps dude. My idea is, call it literally anything else. Also I’m getting one

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        How about WOOOOM

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          Or vwoomba

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            UwUmba?

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              Lumisal beat you to it, sorry buddy

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            If that way the case, in keeping with open source tradition, it should be the Uwumba

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              Yes, it was a latin v

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          Why not MOOOOW?

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            that one goes on the lawn.

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            We gotta reserve this for a future sibling that cut the grass

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          It holds all the dust in its WOMB!

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        The name apparently is a rotational ambigram. I would have sworn it was a transdimensional mammogram

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          That’s actually pretty cool once you know about it.

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        Something much better like eufy? Or roomba?

        I think it’s a law that robot vacuums must be named something silly.

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        I have no objections. If it doesn’t connect to the wider internet, could be cool

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      OOMWOO just sounds like a fake AliExpress brand.

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      Like, even just SelfVac or whatever would be good…

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        VacBot, HoovrBot AutoVac, AutoHoovr…there’s just so many options for names that describe what it is

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          How about

          iSuckTM

          🤣

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          Ooh, I really like “AutoVac!”

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        “I’ve been SelfVack’n it all day long.”

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        People love a good innuendo

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      YOURMOMMA

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        We’ve done it. Look no further

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