People love the Roomba. Why? Because it allows you to vacuum a room while sitting on the couch. Also because it seems more attainable than the Segway. And then a cat rode one, and it was glorious. Now comes something truly groundbreaking -- Roomba art. As far as we can tell, the trend started on a blog called Signal Theorist, who got the idea to set up a camera, turn off all the lights, and take a long-exposure photo of the Roomba's path as it "did its thing." The result looked like an awesomely psychedelic electrical spider web. Now more people are getting inspired to try variations on the same technique, and the creativity seems to be concentrated in the Flickr group, Roomba Art. Check out a few below, but be sure to head over to the group to see them all.
- The one that started it all, via signaltheorist

- via bartlec

- via zim2411
























comments
Looks like pre-school marble painting on a larger scale of course.
by:// Maretta Reeves - Oct 2nd 2009
Reminds me of an exhibit I saw at the Tate museum last summer...Art Deco is back from hibernation and leaped forward to requiring technology just to view it. This art is somewhere in the 2020s, we're lucky we get to see it today.
by:// Lloyd - Oct 2nd 2009
looks like the roomba missed a spot
by:// ari gold - Oct 2nd 2009
Signaltheorist didn't start it. Check the dates on the posts on the roomba art flickr group, half or so are from before Signaltheorist made his.
by:// Peter - Oct 3rd 2009
Very creative. I love art imitating life imitating art.
by:// multimedia design - Oct 5th 2009
its the same designs as those spirograph as seen on tv they sold when we were kids
by:// dyslexic_insomniac - Oct 5th 2009
I have made some movies in my bed room all lights turned out, some months ago. You can see one of them in http://magnohlia.blogspot.com/2009_05_01_archive.html
by:// fernanda - Oct 8th 2009