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Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum — Meet OOMWOO
(makerspet.com)
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this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2026
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You can tell it's a genuine high-quality open-source project because the name sucks
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
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"
But muh rotational-symmetry.
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?
Lumisal beat you to it, sorry buddy
If that way the case, in keeping with open source tradition, it should be the Uwumba
Yes, it was a latin v
Why not MOOOOW?
that one goes on the lawn.
We gotta reserve this for a future sibling that cut the grass
It holds all the dust in its WOMB!
The name apparently is a rotational ambigram. I would have sworn it was a transdimensional mammogram
That's actually pretty cool once you know about it.
Something much better like eufy? Or roomba?
I think it's a law that robot vacuums must be named something silly.
I have no objections. If it doesn't connect to the wider internet, could be cool
OOMWOO just sounds like a fake AliExpress brand.
Like, even just SelfVac or whatever would be good...
VacBot, HoovrBot AutoVac, AutoHoovr...there's just so many options for names that describe what it is
How about
iSuck^TM^
🤣
Ooh, I really like "AutoVac!"
“I’ve been SelfVack’n it all day long.”
People love a good innuendo
YOURMOMMA
We've done it. Look no further
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
https://youtu.be/Ec5f6SrGlzU?is=HGIPPRdTSUJnQUXL