Since it’s been more than oh, 24 hours, I have to talk about the Wii again. Sorry. But what better way to get a mention of one of my favorite next generation consoles in than by combining a post about it with the Roomba, another innovative product in it’s own right. For those who don’t know what a Wii is, there’s no hope for you, but if you’re questioning about the Roomba, there I can help. The Roomba is a disc-shaped mechanoid which performs the simple duty of cleaning your hardwood or tiled floors (and extremely thin carpeting). Automatically, via simple algorithms such as spiral cleaning, wall-fallowing and random walk angle-changing when it collides with another object. A major part of the Roomba’s popularity, other than the fact it cleans your floors for you with minimal fuss, is that the creators have opened up a certain degree of the robot’s programming, creating an open-language for hacking and modding. This has led to some pretty outstanding mods, such as the one we see here in this video, where a dashing your university student has hacked his Roomba to follow the Wiimote’s motions. Creating a symphony of little Roomba’s would be an evil-Wii-genius’ dream come true!

Watch the video after the jump..

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