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THat happend to me to but then it just suddnely stopped and started working again.
robo peace
Categories: Robosapien V1 & V2
Hi,
my V2 seems to have problems turning his head to the left. Everytime I try to do this (via remote), he moves the upper part of his body to the left unless the body cannot move further. Then he starts moving his head. Also, he often does not return objects which he is holding in his left hand. He says 'here you are' and then all over sudden moves back his hand. I have to press shift1+y several times until he finally gives back the object. As opening his hands is linked to his head turning to the hand's direction, I think this may also be caused by the head-problem.
He didn't have this problem when I received him. It first started like 2 days ago. Is there something I can do to get his head work right again? How are head and hands connected together? And how does he know how far he can turn his head? Maybe he's got a bad sensor or something.
Dradts
February 11, 2007 2:18 PM
February 12, 2007 6:17 AM
It seems like mine also started working correctly again. This really confuses me...
February 12, 2007 11:59 AM
I tried it again this afternoon, and now, both hands seem to be affected. The right hand only opens up sometimes, the left hand amost never opens. If I try to turn his head via remote, he now almost everytime rotates his upper part of body. Is this a hardware defect? My batteries are empty now, and I will try again when they are recharged...
February 12, 2007 9:23 PM
well thats gay.... try it when the batts. are charchgerd and then if it doesn't work ret urn it.
robo peace
February 13, 2007 2:03 AM
I found this post
http://pruim037.proboards107.com/inde...
and it describes the exact same problem as I have. It seems like there are contacts in front of the head underneath the casing, which have to be re-bent.
I'm not sure whether I will send my RSV2 back, or whether I will try to fix it myself. Seems not to be too complicated tho...
February 16, 2007 3:47 AM
I managed to repair the V2 myself. Actually, it was pretty easy. Just had to remove his casing, and then cleaned the contacts. Now he's working fine again :-)
February 16, 2007 2:21 PM
Nice one Dradts
even so it was easy to fix, i bet it gave you a real BUZZ!!! that you sorted it! so why not try a hack? How about the LED hack? thats the one im going to do first.
Hunter.
February 16, 2007 8:55 PM
Yes, I was thinking about that already 
I tried the color recognition with a small flashlight on the V2's head, and it worked much better then.
Maybe I will embed a small LED at the side of his head-camera....
February 17, 2007 10:09 AM
I too thought a bout doing the LED modification. I found that, in my bedroom, my V2 can recognize its bowling pins or the color red in general along with flesh tones. It has a hard time seeing its green ball unless I aid it with the white LED from my cell phone.
March 17, 2007 3:13 PM
don't screw with the robots because your warrenty does not cover that.
"In order to state a Fact you need to know everything in exsistance, since thats the case religon is the answer not logic"
March 18, 2007 8:20 AM
Sure, but for me this doesn't matter. I think its faster to self-repair the bot instead of sending it in and to wait for a replacement bot.
March 18, 2007 10:29 AM
good point but you might screw up and then you will void your ability to operate the machinery just read the back of the manuel.
WOWWEE REPRESENTIVE
Rio Uchiha
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March 18, 2007 11:03 PM
Dradts said: Yes, I was thinking about that already
Maybe I will embed a small LED at the side of his head-camera....
You know in stead of using a flashlight I found this hack that works really well heres the link: http://www.evosapien.com/robosapien-h...
robo peace
March 19, 2007 2:29 PM
I also noticed another thing when I had this problem with V2. (I was the one who posted the problem on the robosapien.tk site)
What Ive noticed is that V2 does not like it cold! I usually operate V2 downstairs in the conservatory and it get really cold at night and in the morning when I was operating him.
I took him upstairs and let him warm up and he seemed to bo A Ok afterwards...
hmm...
March 19, 2007 4:31 PM
Well is your downstairs really humid? If so I know this is wway out there but mabey the water got in him and then it froze.
Just a posibilty!
robo peace
March 20, 2007 12:33 PM
My RSV2 is having the head problem again. Its the fourth time now. It seems like rebending the contacts does not really solve this problem for a long time. I am thinking about what else I could do. There seems to be some sort of oil on the top of the contacts. Does anybody know what this is? Maybe it would help to put some more of it onto the contacts...
March 20, 2007 4:23 PM
Just a thought. I have never actualy taken anything except the had apart on mine but check over the circuit boards. Just maybe there is a bridge that isn't supposed to be there. Also check the motors themselves. maybe one isn't in right.
March 20, 2007 4:56 PM
It really seems to have to do with the contacts. As soon as I press them close, the head-turning works again.
March 21, 2007 8:30 PM
Oh, ok. Well, have you ever tried saudering the contacts closed? That way they would not come open. Don't try it though if you don't want to void your warrenty
March 22, 2007 3:10 AM
If you solder the contacts, the RSV2 does no longer know how far he can turn his head. Without knowing this, most of his functionality won't work.
I've now cleaned the contacts and rebent them with a nipper. Till now, the contacts seem to work. I will also buy a can of contact spray in the next days. Maybe Kontakt 61 will do the trick...
March 24, 2007 9:51 AM
okay.....
"In order to state a Fact you need to know everything in exsistance, since thats the case religon is the answer not logic"
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April 5, 2007 4:21 PM
If you take a look inside the v2 there are many springs that turn the body, hands and head. There is defenately something stuck in there or one of the parts have stopped working that well . ( one spring thing has to hit another, first the head and hands and then the body so you may need to switch some components. I also added led lights to my v2 without opening him. You will have to play around with one of those radio and light things so you can switch around a few things and then you are done. Very simple... I also added a MP4 to my v2.
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April 5, 2007 4:22 PM
Hah me and Dradts basically have the same pic. lol
The Revolution will never end! :P
April 5, 2007 4:35 PM
Well, you got somewhere. You found the problem. You may need to put a piece of wire or something in the middle or there is the deadly solder gun.
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