iRobot Roomba 560 Motherboard Replacement

Rotate the Roomba so the bumper is in front of you.

Remove the wheel using a spudger. You can probably also do this with your hand depending on how dirty the wheel is.

Remove the wheel guiding inlay using the spudger or your hand.

Remove the main brush by unscrewing the single 5 mm screw on the yellow side sweeper using the Phillips #1 driver.

Once the screw is removed, lift out the brush and store the screw and brush.

Using the Phillips #1 driver, remove the four 10 mm screws that hold the back panel in place.

Once the four screws are removed, store the safely and lift up the back panel.

Remove the vacuum try to have an easier repair.

Locate the battery.

Lift up the yellow battery by pulling up the green tabs on its side.

Handle the battery with care.

Using the Phillips #1 driver, remove the three screws that hold back the wheel unit on each side. This is not required but will make the repair easier.

Lift out the wheel units and store safely.

Repeat on the other side.

Check that the unit now looks like this and all the parts are removed.

Flip the unit around.

Use your hands to unhook the snaps between the silver panel from the black panel located where the vacuum bin was.

Using the ifixit spudgers pry under the main silver panel.

Lift off the panel.

Turn the unit around again and locate the 10 screws on the front bumper.

Using the Phillips #1 driver, remove the ten 10 mm screws on the bumper that run along the outer edge of the Roomba.

Lift the thin top cover that holds the bumper in place.

Be very vigilant with the attached sensor. Otherwise you risk ripping off the cable and damaging the entire sensor.

Lift the bumper upwards for easier access.

Unscrew the two 5 mm screws that connect the red and white wires to the device using the Phillips #1 driver.

Lift the circular black panel off the sensor housing.

Turn the unit back around.

Using the Phillips #1 driver, unscrew the following 13 screws that hold the black panel in place:

Two 5 mm on the bottom ends of the semicircle handle.

Ten 7.5 mm scattered on the Roomba.

One 5 mm at the bottom of control board.

Lift the black panel off the device.

Remove the outer silver circle, black plastic cover, and black film from the central control board in that order.

Using the Phillips #1 driver, unscrew the four 10 mm screws that surround the clean button.

Lift off the panel.

Lift off the plastic sheet.

Remove all the top connectors to the mainboard.

You can use ifixit's reverse pliers but you can also use your hands.

Using the Phillips #1 driver, unscrew the five screws on the mainboard.

Do not rip out mainboard now!

Carefully lift off the mainboard, moving it towards you.

Be very careful with the connected connectors.

Very carefully disconnect the connections off the mainboard.

You can ifixit's reverse pliers.

The sensor might still be attached/is not attached to the main unit but mainboard. Just unplug it.

You can now replace the mainboard and complete the steps from the bottom up to finish the replacement.