Roomba Frogger
by James Ransom-Wiley 
{ Aug 8th 2006 at 6:45PM }
Remember when Phillip Torrone and Limor Fried modded a Roomba and played Frogger across a four-lane highway? No? Well, if you did, it would be the perfect segue into this week's Roomba mod breakthrough.A company called myRoomBud -- apparently started, built, and run by kids (peep this child labor pic) -- has designed a version of Frogger (pictured) that features myRoomBud's Roobit the Frog (a costume character mod for Roomba). Using a RooTooth device and some clever code work, myRoomBud modded its Roomba to sync up with the in-game Roobit. Yes folks, so incredibly pointless that it could've only been conceived by the minds of children. So where do we download?
[Via TechEBlog]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
cringer8 @ Aug 8th 2006 7:12PM
The cat attacking the Roomba was the best part. Cute.
William @ Aug 8th 2006 7:16PM
Wow that kid sounds damn young. These people must be like geniuses haha. And that orange kitten was sooo cuteeeeeeeeeee.
epobirs @ Aug 8th 2006 8:11PM
I'd buy a Roomba tomorrow if I could trust my sister's Border Collie not to attack it. The other dog in the house is three times larger but would just ignore the Roomba unless it offered food. Rhodesian Ridgebacks, as a breed, believe they are constantly on the verge of starvation.
weaszel @ Aug 8th 2006 8:42PM
i don't see how that has anything to do with frogger, aside from the fact that the roomba moves a little bit when the onscreen character does.
also, how does a comment about dogs get nineteen stars?
Huzzah!! @ Aug 8th 2006 11:31PM
I uh....... don't get it. What's the point?
Rare Hare @ Aug 9th 2006 3:42AM
"also, how does a comment about dogs get nineteen stars?"
Do you even understand the star system?
The stars shown are not an amount of stars given for that particular comment. They are the number of stars, given one star at a time, that the commenter has accumulated from all comments he or she has made.
Hope that clears things up for you...