Description
Firmware for a window-cleaning robot sold for home use from 2000, read from a unit retired by its owners.
Provenance
Deposited by Pinewood Retro Computing Society in 2024. The card had sat unpowered for years; it was read at low voltage, several times. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
e6baabdf7e42fd7c9c63454cb99470b1651000fe8efee6c935300f8799ae6cfa- Last verified
- Oct 9, 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: Ember Robotics, Ember window-cleaning robot: firmware 4.8 (2000). Lazarus Archive, LZ-38839.