PINO-DX - Anyone Still Playing With?

Jun 17, 2006 2 Replies

Hardly anything on the net for Pino-DX. His a bit old now and is not really a good mover.



However I'd be interested in chatting to others who still have an interest in the little fellow.



I am thinking about moding in a very practical way my PINO - yes an eBay reject :o))



Mostly to remove a few annoyances like reducing the volume of the speaker, add rechargeable batteries & socket as well as trying to get around the brain drain on removal of batteries syndrome..



Thought I'd also have a go at fitting a wireless camera inside although as PINO is pretty poor at mobility I might leave the camera until I see a better robot I like.



Also aesthetically I was thinking about sculpting a (latex) robot face for him and placing it behind a clear visor. (This could even become articulated by replacing the LEDs inside with some micro solenoids and a simple amp circuit...)



For mobility his leg movements could probably be improved in some way or I'm sure a simple method could be found to replace leg movement with control of a skateboard :).. but maybe that's a bit adventurous.



So.. is anyone else still playing with their Pino?



Pete


My Pino is just waiting for a good hack project ...

-- R --

Mine is in the same state... just hanging around looking sad while I work on other things.

Anyone here have a manual for it? I picked mine up in Japan and have long since lost the instructions that came with it.

Aaron (contactable at amramsey at that google email place)

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