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

[Tom Arnold]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 03:56:02PM -0400, Gogegous wrote:
> 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?

The Hero-1 if it has the Speech module would have a Votrax chip in it which
can be fun for musicish noises if you're into that sorta thing ( as I am ).

Being a big Hero-1 fan however and knowing there are people who would pay
good money for it I'd have to suggest not destroying it for parts.  Ebay it
or check around for one of the many Hero-1 groups.  They are fairly rare and
very collectable.

Here is just one place that does Hero-1 stuff :
http://www.robotswanted.com/

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