Veteran game developer Rich Whitehouse found a way to turn Roomba tracking data into randomized “Doom” maps, he revealed in a blog post on Monday. Called “Doomba,” the script utilizes a Roomba’s ...

The idea first started when Whitehouse and his wife were researching robot vacuums. Honestly, nothing will beat Whitehouse’s own explanation for the tool’s original, so I’ll let him take it from here: ...

For Halloween this year, a bunch of people remade Doom in their real-life office. It was good and we all had fun. But now something better has happened. On Christmas Eve, programmer and designer Rich ...

Some of you out there may be lucky enough to have received over the holidays a fancy new robot vacuum. Turns out it’s even more useful than you’d think: in addition to cleaning your home, it can scan ...

Now here’s something you might not have expected ever to read: a game developer is using a Roomba vacuum cleaner to create levels in the original Doom video game from 1993. The result is ‘Doomba,’ ...

You can't swing a dead cat more than six inches these days without slamming into some incredibly improbable device running Doom. ASCII Doom? It exists. Playing Doom using a toaster to control it? It's ...

If you’ve ever thought that your floor cleaning robot eating the fringe on your rug wasn’t destructive enough, [Kyle Brinkerhoff] is working on a solution — Doomba. This blazingly fast RC vehicle has ...

Despite being over 25 years old, the original DOOM is still a favorite among gamers and hackers alike. For years now, running the 1993 demonic shooter has been a critical milestone when hacking or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Called “Doomba,” the script utilizes a Roomba’s mapping functionality and Noesis — a tool Whitehouse created for previewing and ...

We all have our demons, though for most of us, they're internal minions that torture our thoughts—that's to say, we don't have actual demons following us around. Or do we? Programmer and designer Rich ...