Oh Japanese otaku, with their unhealthy obsession to mate everything that has no right to be mated. If only they could do it with themselves. No wait. That didn't come out right.
Anyway, here's this guy. He likes his Roomba. He also likes to surf, but first he has to clean his room. Will he just grab a broom and start sweeping? No! Why bother when you can spend all day buying tons of equipment, ripping it apart and then hacking it back together? All to clean a postage-stamp sized floor? Now that is the otaku way.
Granted, being able to control a Roomba by standing in a Wii Balance Board is kinda of cool. The "Surfin'ba" looks a little clumsy though. What really makes this video is the guy's awesome Engrish. "OK, I can't wait big waves!" and " I clearned all the room" are instant classics.
Make sure to check out another of his Wii x Roomba hacks after the jump, along with a really crazy Pac-Man version.
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Damn.... and I thought my custom XBox 360 cooler built from a taken apart laptop cooling pad was cool......this guy is awesome!!!
Couple this with my exo-environment motion sensing program I made last year and we could make it chase after or run away from "ghosts" in a pacman maze if he ever made one! Awww man I have to find this guy!
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