[sdiy] Intro and Question: Any Useful Parts in my Robot?

[James Patchell]

Poor little robot...that is probably more of a collectors item rather than 
a source of parts...considering it's age...probably not  a whole lot will 
be useful in there...unless you make a robot that plays a musical 
instrument...or such...
:-)

At 03:56 PM 6/7/2005 -0400, Gogegous wrote:
>Hi list,
>I have been lurking for about a year now and it's time to say HI.  Since
>finding this list I have become very interested in synth DIY and have
>started slow by building a few kits.  My first kit was the P9700 modular
>synth from Paia, I enjoyed that kit very much and ordered an extra MIDI2CV
>and VCO module to go with it.  I recently built a variable power supply to
>make testing things a bit easier, and I am currently working on the VCO
>section of my x0xb0x kit.  Once the x0xb0x is done I will start on a
>Soundlab Mini Synth board that my wife got me for my birthday (what a
>lady!).
>
>A friend who noticed my new hobby gave me a broken robot.  My robot is a
>Heathkit Hero1 and it looks like a pretty awesome gadget.  I fixed it up a
>bit but apparently the batteries are shot and the little guy complains about
>it incessantly.  I am more interested in Synth-DIY than Robot-DIY, and so
>I'm thinking of getting rid of the robot.  I was going to post a note at the
>local university to see if someone would consider the robot plus cash for a
>scope (which I am sorely lacking) but recently it occurred to me that he may
>be full of useful parts!
>
>Does anyone out there know if these old robot kits had any components that
>are of use in SDIY?
>
>
>
>Thanks and nice to meet you all,
>Tim

         -Jim
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