Description
Firmware for a pool robot sold for home use from 2001, read from a unit retired by its owners.
Provenance
Donated by the creator’s family in 2015. Read with the owner’s consent and credentials. Nothing was bypassed. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
241b050d26cd197c5b20b0bcddc7f4a0dc77ed28044d6e44c9e6eeef68d1b897- Last verified
- Oct 28, 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: Corvid Robotics, Corvid pool robot: firmware 4.4 (2001). Lazarus Archive, LZ-23838.