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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by syntaxing on Friday August 05, 2022 @10:23AM (#32356491)
Just look at the tear down videos on the XV11 compared the any roborock tear down. I would link you the XV11hacking site but seems like it’s down. It had everything from firmware to schematics that hobbyist did in the early 2010s since it was the cheapest way to get a 2D LiDAR (pulling it from a the vacuum itself).
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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by Someone1234 on Friday August 05, 2022 @11:10AM (#32357263)
You said they were "exactly the same" circuit boards. You're saying you were able to make that evaluation using multiple tear-down videos that weren't doing a side-by-side?
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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by derefr on Friday August 05, 2022 @12:40PM (#32358547)
I'm not the GP poster, but doing a visual comparison, if you've got chips of the same size and shape in the same places, and the same passives in the same places, and the trace routing is also visually the same between them, wouldn't you feel that's pretty definitive?
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