inari@piefed.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoBuilding an Open-Source Robot Vacuum — Meet OOMWOOmakerspet.comexternal-linkmessage-square35linkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down10
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minus-squareFeathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoYou can tell it’s a genuine high-quality open-source project because the name sucks
minus-squareace_garp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoBut muh rotational-symmetry.
minus-squareFmstrat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months ago About the name: “oomwoo” is a rotational ambigram — it reads the same flipped 180°, just like the robot itself roaming your floor in every direction. There was an attempt.
minus-squareMika@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoNow we need to invent a recursive acronym for this name and it would be perfect
minus-squareAxolotl@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months ago“Open OOMWOO Might Win Over Obstructions” referring to the fact that these things often end up crashing into everything
minus-square🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖@hilariouschaos.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoI propose renaming it to SUCKS cos that’s what vacuums do.
minus-square🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖@hilariouschaos.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoThat’s good. I was thinking we could come up with an acronym resulting in suck
minus-squareFeathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoSucky Unsupervised Cleaning Knickknack
minus-squarebstix@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoRobot vacuum designers are limited to using only the “o” vowel. That’s just the way it is.
minus-squareFeathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoIt’s like carcinization, all robot vacuum names eventually become “voov”
minus-squareunemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoCan’t wait to hear your marketing ideas
minus-squarecatsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoIt’s called OOMWOO in all caps dude. My idea is, call it literally anything else. Also I’m getting one
You can tell it’s a genuine high-quality open-source project because the name sucks
But muh rotational-symmetry.
There was an attempt.
Now we need to invent a recursive acronym for this name and it would be perfect
“Open OOMWOO Might Win Over Obstructions”
referring to the fact that these things often end up crashing into everything
I propose renaming it to SUCKS cos that’s what vacuums do.
OpenSuck™
That’s good.
I was thinking we could come up with an acronym resulting in suck
Sucky Unsupervised Cleaning Knickknack
Robot vacuum designers are limited to using only the “o” vowel. That’s just the way it is.
It’s like carcinization, all robot vacuum names eventually become “voov”
Can’t wait to hear your marketing ideas
It’s called OOMWOO in all caps dude. My idea is, call it literally anything else. Also I’m getting one
How about WOOOOM
Or vwoomba
UwUmba?