I'll start: printers.

I bought an HP in March 2020 when my job went remote and HP bricked it remotely after only 100 pages because I wouldn't sign up for their subscription program. Ended up trashing a perfectly good printer.

Luckily my library's close by and I can print there remotely.

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[–] 32 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Robot vacuums, I've always hated how they were all cloud-connected, but now they have cameras too.

Yeah I know about Valetudo.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Good news, there's an open source vacuum project called Oomwoo, which allows you to build one yourself with off the shelf parts and a 3D printer

    https://makerspet.com/blog/building-an-open-source-robot-vacuum-meet-oomwoo/

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    Have you seen any mowers that do that? Our back yard is mostly dead, but having it go out once a week would be so cool. I'm a little intimidated by the thought of putting this together, but also want to do it.

    Edit: Looks like the vacuum is sold out.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    A quick search for open source robot mowers pointed me to this: https://openmower.de/

    As for Oomwoo, they're still working on assembly instructions, so I wouldn't immediately jump in unless you're fine with a lot of tinkering. Also, it looks like right now they're only considering parts kits, not fully assembled bots, and that seems to be a future add.

    I personally still think it's cool and will be keeping an eye on it

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