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Hamster-Controlled Roomba Lets Your Hamster Decide What Gets Cleaned

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Sure, a Roomba will methodically and accurately clean your floors, but wouldn’t it be more fun to let chaos reign by throwing the controls of your robotic vacuum over to a hamster?

Some engineers with some free time on their hands decided to retrofit a Roomba with a mechanism that allowed it to be controlled via hamster ball. That is to say, whichever way the hamster runs, the Roomba goes. I’m sure it’s quite liberating for the hamster, but I wouldn’t count on your floors getting too clean. [Networkworld via Gadget Review]

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