NB Roomba

So the project is to build a robot which can carry a camera and walk around. Roomba is cheap and easy to develop on it.

This is a Nvidia Jetson tx1 board. It has a GPU along with a powerful ARM chip on it. The greatest stuff here is this board only consumes 10W power.

I already opened up a Roomba, and try to mount this board on it. If you don't know how to open it, you can read this inversely.

After removing the top&bottom cover, wheels, battery, bumper, motherboard. Here is what your Roomba should look like.

I drill four holes for the tx1 board, but if you got other boards, make sure you measure the right length before drilling anything.

I found out that the Tx1 board is actually larger than the circle shape of the Roomba after a while. So I decided to cut the dust bin open and live more space to the board.

The red line on the bin indicate the cutting line.

As the power/reset button on the board is hidden inside the Roomba, I soldered wires to buttons and later mount it on the dustbin.

I should choose two different color to distinguish Power and Reset... 0_o