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Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum — Meet OOMWOO

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Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum — Meet OOMWOO

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Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum — Meet OOMWOO - Makers Pet
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I’m starting a new build-in-public project: oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself. Raspberry Pi, ROS 2, 2D LiDAR, Home Assistant, 3D printed, local-first — and open from the first commit.
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    You can tell it’s a genuine high-quality open-source project because the name sucks

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      Robot vacuum designers are limited to using only the “o” vowel. That’s just the way it is.

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        It’s like carcinization, all robot vacuum names eventually become “voov”

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      About the name: “oomwoo” is a rotational ambigram — it reads the same flipped 180°, just like the robot itself roaming your floor in every direction.

      There was an attempt.

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        Now we need to invent a recursive acronym for this name and it would be perfect

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          “Open OOMWOO Might Win Over Obstructions”

          referring to the fact that these things often end up crashing into everything

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      But muh rotational-symmetry.

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      Can’t wait to hear your marketing ideas

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        OOMWOO just sounds like a fake AliExpress brand.

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        It’s called OOMWOO in all caps dude. My idea is, call it literally anything else. Also I’m getting one

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          How about WOOOOM

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            Or vwoomba

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              18 hours ago

              UwUmba?

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                Lumisal beat you to it, sorry buddy

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              If that way the case, in keeping with open source tradition, it should be the Uwumba

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                Yes, it was a latin v

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            Why not MOOOOW?

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              that one goes on the lawn.

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              We gotta reserve this for a future sibling that cut the grass

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            It holds all the dust in its WOMB!

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          The name apparently is a rotational ambigram. I would have sworn it was a transdimensional mammogram

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            That’s actually pretty cool once you know about it.

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          Something much better like eufy? Or roomba?

          I think it’s a law that robot vacuums must be named something silly.

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          I have no objections. If it doesn’t connect to the wider internet, could be cool

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        Like, even just SelfVac or whatever would be good…

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          VacBot, HoovrBot AutoVac, AutoHoovr…there’s just so many options for names that describe what it is

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            How about

            iSuckTM

            🤣

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            Ooh, I really like “AutoVac!”

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          “I’ve been SelfVack’n it all day long.”

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          People love a good innuendo

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        YOURMOMMA

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          We’ve done it. Look no further

    • 🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖@hilariouschaos.com
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      I propose renaming it to SUCKS cos that’s what vacuums do.

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        OpenSuck™

        • 🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖@hilariouschaos.com
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          That’s good.

          I was thinking we could come up with an acronym resulting in suck

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            Sucky Unsupervised Cleaning Knickknack

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        https://youtu.be/Ec5f6SrGlzU?is=HGIPPRdTSUJnQUXL

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