It’d be cool if it could operate autonomously, though. No word either on how it’s being controlled our guess is RC, since it looks like the collision sensor grazes a chair leg slightly around the 0:33 mark, but doesn’t seem to change direction. Those motors have got to suck down the juice pretty fast to be able to pop wheelies and pull hole shots like it does in the video below. The whole thing is powered off the standard Roomba 14.4V battery pack, but we suspect not for long. The stock motors were replaced with 600RPM planetary drive motors and a whopping 12A motor controller. doesn’t offer much in the way of build details, but the starting point was a 10-year old Roomba Discovery. But did they ever really clean very well in the first place? Well, maybe not clean since this souped-up racing Roomba appears to move too fast to actually clean anything anymore.
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