What happens when you tie a glowstick to a Roomba, set up a camera, and let the bot do its thing?
You end up with images that look like neon paintings on the floor — except that they're dizzying light displays created by robots.
385 photographers have shared Roomba art photos on Flickr, and no two are the same.
Keep scrolling to check out shots from one such Roomba photographer, named Mike Calarco.
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Calarco studied art in college and bought his first Roomba in 2013 from Goodwill, where he worked at the time. He watched it clean the floors and noticed that it has two LEDs: one that shifts from green to red as its battery dies, and a blue one that lights up when it detects dirt.
He started experimenting with taking photos of the bot working in a dark room. The LEDs on the top of the Roomba are the only lights used in the majority of his photos, although he occasionally ties glowsticks to the top of the bot.
By using long exposures and taking hundreds of photos over an hour or two, Calarco found he could achieve trippy images like this:
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