Our primary objective for this “Roomberry Project” is to adequately gauge temperature and humidity data inside of a data center from various points. To do that, we decided to use the iCreate 2 Roomba platform. Over the past two and a half weeks, Owen and I have successfully gotten our Pi A+ to talk to the Roomba via serial port. Our goal for this week was to communicate with the Roomba, give it commands to move, stop and dock, as well as finding a proper charging solution for the Pi since it will not be utilizing the Roomba’s battery. As of today we have set up an inductive charging solution that will charge the on board LIPO battery while allowing it to run simultaneously.

Next week will primarily be working with our NOIR Pi camera and IR sensor array in an attempt to have the Roomberry become a line-following robot.