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From: rhutchin@BONNIE.ICS.UCI.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.robotics
Subject: HERO 2000
Message-ID: <9101061917.aa18056@BONNIE.ICS.UCI.EDU>
Date: 7 Jan 91 03:18:13 GMT
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A few years ago, my Dad and I got one these babies, hoping to put it together
and have countless hours of fun with the thing.  Unfortunately, after we finished building it, it didn't work, so piece by peice, I have sent the robot to
Heath for testing, and sure enough, all my peices work great (or so they say).
Anyway, when I power it up, the "voice" light sticks on and it does not write
to the terminal (I have it hooked up to my Mac II).  I'm sure the connection
is good because I get a little startup and shutdown "noise" on my terminal,
which is usually a couple of characters.

Does anybody have experience with this robot.  I'm no electrical engineer,
and I don't have access to $100,000 oscilloscopes, but I am pretty technically
oriented if anyone has some advice.

Richard B. Hutchings
Dept ofInfo and Comp Sci, UC Irvine