Our first thought was “check out all of those TO-92 components!”, but then we saw the wiring nightmare. Tom picked up a Robosapien from an estate sale for just $10. Most hackers couldn’t resist that opportunity, but the inexpensive acquisition led to a time-consuming repair odyssey. When something doesn’t work at all you crack it open to see what’s wrong. He was greeted with.This is no problem for anyone competent with a soldering iron. So Tom set to work clipping all the bad wire and replacing it with in-line splices. Voila, the little guy was dancing to his own tunes once again!

But the success was short-lived as the next day the robot was unresponsive again. Tom plans to do some more work by completely replacing the wires as soon as he receives the replacement connectors he ordered. So what do you think, is this an issue that will be resolved with a wire-ectomy or might there be actual damage to the board itself?Fail of the Week is a Hackaday column which runs every Wednesday. Help keep the fun rolling by writing about your past failures and — or sending in links to fail write ups you find in your Internet travels. Posted in, Tagged,.

I would love to program it with Bender's voice so it could walk around saying 'Kill all humans! I downloaded your video and loved it. It must be hard to make a robot that walks on two feet and sell it well. His battery pack is no longer functional and he's covered with the dust of many years of neglect, but.

Beginning in March 2007, WowWee Robotics, the makers of the Robosapien line of robot toys, began including a familiar face inside McDonald's restaurant. For the price of a Happy Meal (nominally around $2), 'boys meals' featured one of eight different WowWee Robotics toys.

Conversely, the 'girls' Happy Meal included a My Little Pony premium toy. The eight robot toys were:. Robosapien - #1; walking (mechanical). Roboraptor - #2; vocalizing (electronic). Robosapien V2 - #3; talking (electronic).

Roboreptile - #4; rolling (mechanical). Robopet - #5; walking (mechanical). Roboraptor - #6; chomping (electronic).

Robosapien V2 - #7; standing (mechanical). Roboreptile - #8; biting (electrical)According to a source close to the production of these 'nano' Robo toys, 60 million units were produced for distribution through McDonald's. Furthermore, this same source named the 'walking' Robosapien as the most 'clever' of them all. Collect all eight and 'super size' yourself. After you've had your fill of the entire Robosapien nanos menagerie, you might want to consider modding one of the toys for a more 'mature' flavor. Let's remove the digital speech circuit from inside the talking Robosapien V2 nano and embed it inside a Serpac enclosure.

Enter the WowWee Robotics Keychain. Inside the chest cavity there is a miniature circuit board with a rubber pushbutton switch.

Attached to this circuit board is a small speaker connected via two short wires and a set of three button cell batteries. This entire assembly is held in place by two white plastic posts. Use your handy narrow blade straight screwdriver to gently pry the circuit board up and off of these two plastic posts. Note: the three button cell batteries could 'spring' out of the circuit board's battery clips. Don't lose these batteries.

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Keep them together with a short piece of transparent tape. Insert the batteries (held together with a piece of transparent tape) into the voice box's battery clips. Slide the power switch into the 'on' position. Make sure that the voice box is working properly. Press the rubber pushbutton.

Drop the working voice box into the Serpac enclosure. Center the voice box's rubber pushbutton underneath one of the enclosure's pushbuttons. In order to ensure a snug fit underneath the enclosure's pushbutton, lay a rubber grommet, salvaged wheel from a toy car, or some other insulated material over one of the rubber posts on the back of the circuit board. Join the keychain enclosure together and test the operation of the voice box. As long as you leave the voice box's power switch 'on,' you can play one of the RS V2 nano's canned messages with the press of the button on your new WowWee Robotics Keychain.