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Comment by fluidcruft | original | Oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself
[−]fluidcruft · 2026-07-02 Thu 03:45 UTC · link
When they get to the point of shipping a kit, why would I care? It's open source, just fix things. It's not rocket science, I'm just no good at working out the baseline machine that has parts to do the things. So I can't help at this point.

I don't expect a finished product. The value to me is the customizability and figuring out how to make it do what I want it to do. I'm sure that's not for everyone but like I have fingers. I can type. I can fix things. Slop is perfectly fine as a first draft because I'm envisioning a community of builders not a bunch of entitled twats who should just buy a Roomba.

[−]progval · 2026-07-02 Thu 06:52 UTC · link
But it's not even a first draft. There are only pictures and markdown files.