How I 3D print gears using POM (Delrin)
POM (Delrin) is the gear plastic in consumer robot vacuums, and notoriously hard to 3D print. Here is how I print it reliably: two sacrificial PETG layers first, then POM.
OOMWOO PCBs – what we are building, how and why
A module-by-module tour of the OOMWOO robot vacuum main board: compute, real-time control, power, fail-safe design, motors, sensors, audio and how we pick parts.
How OOMWOO’s 3D design gets made
OOMWOO’s mechanical design is not drawn from a blank sheet. It starts by researching ready-made…
OOMWOO hardware bring-up: wheels, fans and brushes
OOMWOO is built from sourced vacuum parts – Roborock drive wheels, off-the-shelf blower fans, iRobot…
OOMWOO Vacuum – Build Instructions
Future home for OOMWOO open-source vacuum cleaner robot build instructions. Bring-up notes for the sourced…
How OOMWOO cleaning algorithms work
Here are issues we've ran into building OOMWOO open-source vacuum's cleaning, mapping and navigation - and our solutions.
OOMWOO Headless Sim for LLM Agents
A concise, copy-paste quickstart for running the OOMWOO robot vacuum entirely headless (no display) —…
Write Your First OOMWOO ROS 2 Package: Cover the Floor While Mapping
This is the “hello world” of developing for OOMWOO. It’s deliberately simple — a reactive…
Simulate OOMWOO-One Robot Vacuum in Gazebo with ROS 2
OOMWOO is an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself. oomwoo-one is the first model. This…
How-to: Source BOM for OOMWOO Open-Source Vacuum Robot
I started by drafting a list of parts and deciding which have to be sourced…
Tutorial Part 2: Drive, Map & Navigate Your Proscenic M6 Pro in ROS 2
Tutorial Part 1 got SangamIO running on the vacuum, exposing its motors, wheel encoders, IMU…
Simulate the Proscenic M6 Pro robot vacuum in Gazebo with ROS 2
Run a full Proscenic M6 Pro vacuum simulation in Gazebo with the oomwoo ROS 2 image: SLAM mapping, autonomous Nav2 navigation, manual driving and bumper sensors — no hardware needed.