![]() The guys over at NSLU2-Linux did the hard work of figuring out these Radio Shack data cables. Now with the Roombongle, your laptop is free to explore its surroundings, no longer reliant on you to carry it from place to place. Once the wires are soldered down, just snap the case back together, use a little hot glue to seal in the Roomba cable and act as a strain relief, and you’re done. That’s what the 9V connector-like thing is in the top photo. You can route the +16V from the Roomba to an external connector if you want. Just RX, TX, and GND are all that’s needed. Obviously the thing to do next is graft a Roomba-compatible Mini-DIN 8-pin cable to it: Thus, the Roomba should understand it, and it should understand the Roomba. #AIRLINK101 USB TO SERIAL DRIVER DOWNLOAD#You can download the spec sheet for said chip and you’ll see that it normally works at 3.3V, but its inputs are 5V-tolerant and its 3.3V outputs are within the valid range for 5V logic. It turns out that if you take the little bulge apart, there’s a friendly little PL2303 USB-to-serial adapter chip inside: ![]() Make sure the cable you get has the little bulge in the middle. The Roombongle is made from a phone sync cable. How much is an hour of your time worth? :) ![]() Roombongle is half the price, but it’ll take you about an hour to build. A RooStick costs $29, but you also need their $17 cable, so $46. – USB data cable for Nokia phones (aka “FutureDial Cable 22”) – $20 Things you’ll need to build the Roombongle: The Roombongle is a USB adapter that allows you to control your Roomba from your computer, via the Roomba’s SCI protocol. ![]() It’s tiny and it’s USB, which is about all you need for me to bring you home.īut if you want to hack together something similar and you don’t want to build a huge honking Roomba serial tether, you could build the Roombongle! ![]()
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