Roomba MockBOT

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Sep 15, 2025, 9:06:16 PM (6 days ago) Sep 15
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    Some of you may be aware that Alan Federman, Ross Lunan, Phil McCary, Thomas Messerschmidt, and I are writing a book about building "Mock" TurtleBots. We're building them with plain Roombas, Botvacs, and the Create3 plus various lidars and cameras.

    This evening, I got my third MockBOT, Smarty3, running. My other two, Smarty1 and Smarty2, are based on the Botvac and Create3 Platforms.

    Smarty3 is a Roomba 600, connected to a Raspberry Pi 5 via a 5V USB-to-TTL cable soldered to a 7-pin subminiature DIN plug, and equipped with a DL06 lidar (the package includes a base_laser to base_link transform). I'm using the AutonomyLab/create_robot GitHub:

AutonomyLab/create_robot

Smarty3

Enjoy,
Camp

Thomas Messerschmidt

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Sep 16, 2025, 4:46:55 AM (5 days ago) Sep 16
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Yes! 
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We will settle for nothing less than TOTAL World Domination!"
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Thomas

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