{"id":862,"date":"2012-08-11T17:12:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T21:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/?p=862"},"modified":"2012-08-11T17:12:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T21:12:52","slug":"roomba-4000-series-teardown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/roomba-4000-series-teardown\/","title":{"rendered":"Roomba 4000 Series Teardown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The iRobot Roomba is a great robotic device for hardware hackers and robot builders.<br \/>\nThey can be found on Ebay for as little as $20 with and without batteries. The battery pack seems to be the main reason they get sold because most users just don&#8217;t want to bother replacing the battery, which costs about $45 on Ebay. Other items that cause problems are dirty wheel sensors, a siezed cleaning brush motor and an occasional broken drive belt. Most of these problems aren&#8217;t a concern to hardware hackers.<\/p>\n<p>The The Roomba contains a variety of sensors, motors and raw hardware that can be disassembled and used to build other roving robot devices. I&#8217;ve used parts from Roomba in several hacks and I&#8217;d say that my favorite part are the motors. They have a belt driven planetary gear reduction transmission that provides very high torque and they can be driven directly from the H-bridge that is already on the Roomba main board. Each assembly has a wheel sensor but it tends to drift in it&#8217;s accuracy due to the belt drive slipping slightly.<\/p>\n<p>Follow along with the video now and learn how to do a tear down on a Roomba vacuum robot. This video will guide you through all the steps to disassemble the Roombe for repairs or to simply salvage parts. There&#8217;s a few blooper moments at the beginning of this one that I left in for laughs! Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>Keep on hackin!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VsOUcEPVSkM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iRobot Roomba is a great robotic device for hardware hackers and robot builders. They can be found on Ebay for as little as $20 with and without batteries. The battery pack seems to be the main reason they get &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/roomba-4000-series-teardown\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}