Description
Firmware for a lawn robot sold for home use from 2001, read from a unit retired by its owners.
Provenance
Donated by the creator in 2013. The controller had failed, so the memory chip was removed and read directly. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
78ca2723c5ad28cec17c8fd801b23ee958b154b514a0a3f259ff749bac085c9b- Last verified
- Oct 17, 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 the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms.
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: Egret Robotics, Egret lawn robot: firmware 3.1 (2001). Lazarus Archive, LZ-18748.