{"id":57897,"date":"2018-12-27T03:09:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T10:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/doomba-turns-your-roombas-cleaning-maps-into-doom-levels\/"},"modified":"2018-12-27T03:09:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T10:09:38","slug":"doomba-turns-your-roombas-cleaning-maps-into-doom-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/doomba-turns-your-roombas-cleaning-maps-into-doom-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Doomba\u2019 turns your Roomba\u2019s cleaning maps into Doom levels"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s practically a rule in tech: If it has electricity, eventually it will run Doom<\/em>. Now a Roomba might have been a bit tricky to work into that equation, given the lack of things like a screen, but game developer Rich Whitehouse has found a way with a new tool he calls \u201cDoomba<\/a>\u201d that can take floor map data from the smart cleaning robots and convert it into Doom<\/em> levels, according to Polygon<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n

The idea first started when Whitehouse and his wife were researching robot vacuums. Honestly, nothing will beat Whitehouse\u2019s own explanation for the tool\u2019s original, so I\u2019ll let him take it from here:<\/p>\n

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I soon realized that there was a clear opportunity to serve the Dark Lord by conceiving a plethora of unholy algorithms in service to one of the…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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It\u2019s practically a rule in tech: If it has electricity, eventually it will run Doom. Now a Roomba might have been a bit tricky to work into that equation, given the lack of things like a screen, but game developer Rich Whitehouse has found a way with a new tool he calls \u201cDoomba\u201d that can… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":57898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t