Description
Firmware for a floor-cleaning robot sold for home use from 2002, read from a unit retired by its owners.
Provenance
Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. The controller had failed, so the memory chip was removed and read directly. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
403f271f6309cce8449c40cd2d55288f1caab651c041a57a77443686198aa5fa- Last verified
- Sep 8, 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: Whimbrel Robotics, Whimbrel floor-cleaning robot: firmware 4.0 (2002). Lazarus Archive, LZ-09985.