The beginning

So..I  bought a robot lawnmower, a supoman, called rotenbach In germany.
And being me, I didn't think it did a good enough job.
It didn't cut the entire lawn, in one go.
It went the wrong way around the garden.
I couldn't put the charging station Where wanted.
And it gets stuck too often.
Not nearly good enough so of course, ill hack it.

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