Description
Firmware for a window-cleaning robot sold for home use from 2003, read from a unit retired by its owners.
Provenance
Found during a house clearance in Port Pineby and passed to Lazarus. Read with the owner’s consent and credentials. Nothing was bypassed. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
936c6b2e14258d80489e317e4d95cb1507bb7a1a1622a75a55fb6c71a543b872- Last verified
- Sep 1, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-ROBOT-2 · lz-mcu core
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- Kept in cold storage in Vancouver
Access
Free, in reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-ROBOT-2, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on household robots.
Cite as: Northwind Robotics, Northwind window-cleaning robot: firmware 1.5 (2003). Lazarus Archive, LZ-06442.