Isobot Hack Video

[Brickbob offline]

I have made some move using Basic Stamp 2.

Here's the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR84q3zRKT8

Have Fun!!

[Crazydoc offline]

Hey Brickbob,

great work on that mod.

How did you program the servos ?
With the serial bus from the servos ?

I will get my i-Sobot soon and I want to try it with the Arduino project from this page:

http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1237771631/0

Please post more info on your mod and some pics from the cable connections.

Thank you.

[Brickbob offline]

I will do that in few days time. I am quite busy right now. Maybe I will post it on my blog.

[knuckles904 offline]

Yeah, please do post some details. I am the one who posted what crazydoc linked. I had problems trying to hack the servo protocol with the arduino but it might have been due to not being able to invert(or rather not invert) the serial signal. I checked out your parallax forum post. Congrats for being the first I know of to control the isobot's servos directly via microcontroller

[irocjr offline]

well i know that i have been hunting online for about 2 weeks now. looking for information on hacking the isobot. and the only one i know that actualy did it is you brickbob. i dont consider robodance a real hack. and i have seen a couple of people that took the isobot apart to look inside. but you are definatly by far the most advanced i have found with hacking him. i had almost given up hope on the subject untill i found this forum. thank you for raising my spirits and hope! please keep us posted.

i just wanted to add that i'm remarkably suprised that nobody has done anything close to what you are doing. whith as advanced as the isobot is, and the price for him. and the fact that he's been out for about 2 years now. it saddens me a little to think that the robosapien line gets more attention than our little isobot...