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Man accidentally vibe codes a robovac army

Gail P Sherman
Feb 24, 2026
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The DJI Romo is a $2000 behemoth that mops and vacuums using LIDAR and AI. Sammy Azdoufal ended up controlling thousands of them when all he wanted to do was drive his robovac with a game controller.

Azdoufal, who is not a hacker by trade, used Claude Code to develop a method to connect his homegrown app to DJI so he could use his PlayStation controller …

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