Well, I "inventoried" my Hero, not sure what to do at this point. At first I thought just the control panel/display board was missing. Looking at the list of what's missing vs what's there, it's probably better for me to maybe part it out, or find someone who could use the bot for parts and try to make back what I paid for it. I was hoping that it was fairly complete, and just needed some minor work, but at this point it's pretty much a lump of metal that used to do something. :( But here's where it stands - Included Experimental Board Sonar Receive Board Sonar Transmit Board Sense Board CPU Board Missing I/O Board Power Supply Board Main Drive Board Receiver Board Display Board (Keypad Board) On Friday, July 8, 2016, Joseph Oprysko <joprysko1@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, since this is back on topic apparently. While I haven't received the robot yet. I know the control panel is missing, so I'm going to need to try to track one down or make one. I did see one on e-bay recently, but I'm not going to pay $200 for the keypad to control the robot. So I will have to come up with another to interface to it.
If I can get schematics/control signal info for it, I should be able to build some type of interface for it.
It looks like most of the other interface boards are in place, but I won't know for sure until I receive it. If the main logic board is missing, I guess I would technically just have a shell of a robot. But then I guess I could use raspberry pi/arduino/etc to rebuild it.
Unless someone has stock parts around of course. Although I do have a number of breadboards (both solderless and just the holy prototype ones.) I'll have to pull out the various boxes of stuff I have. I have one or two at home, and another one or two boxes of random components in storage. (A lot from when Radio Shack stores were closing)
Many years ago I had a Hero JR that I actually found in the trash. There was no problems with it at the time. But after my little sister ended up re-painting it, and the batteries dying/not being able to take a charge, it ended up back in the trash. l. But being a tech-curious teen, I ended up ripping it apart into pieces, prying chips and resistors off the boards, it ended up being totaled. Thinking about it now, there was still lots of parts that would have been useful, the platform itself, the motors and stepper motors, etc. But since it's gone over 20 years, no need for regrets now.
On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org');>
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I believe that my schedule is setting up to be able to attend Saturday of
the next workshop,
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