An IRC-Enabled Lawn Mower
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·August 16, 2025wolrah
Strapping a Pi to a lawn mower for silly reasons, plus a bonus cat at the end. This is what I want in my internet.
nirui
You forgot to mention the hypnotizing video. You can get people to do anything for you after letting them watch it in repeat for more than half an hour.
en3r0
Agreed. I love that this happened, and on IRC!
bombcar
Modern electric battery lawnmowers probably have processors that can run DooM; putting an IRC server directly on one would be fun.
The cheaper Chinese off-brands are probably pretty hackable.
neilv
> Now, I grew up in a rural area of the southern US, and I had never been out of the South, but on Undernet, I met people in other states, other countries, even other continents! I made friends all over the world and learned a great deal about other cultures and ideas.
This was one of the greatest things about early Internet.
jeremysalwen
Check out http://openmower.de ... You could go all the way and make the mower be controlled over IRC.
VoidWhisperer
You would need to have a reasonable amount of trust with the people you let control it, or you may have some... questionable designs mowed into your lawn haha
DonHopkins
Two discussions about Larry Ellison battling it out for 14th and 15th place:
14. An IRC-Enabled Lawn Mower (idlerpg.net)
15. OpenMower – An Open Source Lawn Mower (github.com/clemenselflein)
Where does it keep the trout?