roombas make dazzling time-lapse light paintings

September 29th, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! by: technabob

Ever wonder what sort of stuff was running through the electronic brain of your Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner? These wonderful time-lapse photos should give you a pretty good idea of what your Roomba has been up to.

These amazing photographs were made by strapping a colored LED to the top of Roomba vacuums and then capturing extra-long exposure photos (known as “light paintings”). It’s sort of like looking at a neon Spirograph and spider web rolled into one. I’ve posted a few of my favorites in the gallery below…

You can check out the complete archive of Roomba light art over at the Roomba Art Flickr pool. My Hoover definitely can’t do this.

[via New World Geek via Make:]

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filed under:  digital imaging geek art + craft robots strange + wonderful technology

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tags: coolflickrlightlong exposurepaintingphotographyroombatime lapse

September 29th, 2009 comments (2): stumble it! digg it! by: technabob

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