Nice Robosapien upgrade from Carl Monk aka For Toffee

I embedded a PiZero into a Robosapien v1 and can now control it over Wifi using Python.

In January I tweeted this

Just picked up this fella from @RSPCA_official charity shop. Doesn't power up but for £5 let's hack! pic.twitter.com/dmhxhVvGcU

— Carl Monk (@ForToffee) January 12, 2016

I had previously seen how to hack these by using an IR transmitter and LIRC, but this meant externally mounting the hardware and I wanted this to be a more subtle hack.

It took me a while, but I finally got round to working out how to hack it. There were two possible approaches

1. Tap into the Infra-red signal line and fake the remote control
2. Completely replace the main circuit board and control the motors and sensors directly.

I opted for the first option as it is less of a hardware headache. Option 2 would require handling 7 motors with 4 h-bridges, along with a number of switches to detect maximum movement as well as “bumps” on feet and fingers, so that’s a project for another day!

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