Have a Neato XV-11 robotic vacuum cleaner with an intriguing USB port?
Check out Hash’s post at the Random Workshop about connecting to the XV-11’s built-in serial subsystem via USB to send and receive commands and data from the vacuum. I’m using a Linux box and minicom. 🙂
Now I just need a miniature embedded Linux platform with wifi so I can wirelessly communicate with the robot while it vacuums so I can try to create images from the LIDAR data as it maps the house…