Description
Firmware for a lawn robot sold for home use from 2008, read from a unit retired by its owners.
Provenance
Donated by the creator’s family in 2023. The save battery had died, but the program ROM was intact. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
27c9bbe65781612490a63f0363816550c7871ba11d4e2d3e88ffe266f0e517d4- Last verified
- Sep 23, 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.
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: Harrow Robotics, Harrow lawn robot: firmware 4.4 (2008). Lazarus Archive, LZ-38122.