I'm interested in this too... maybe at least a one page HTML ranging from the earliest products to the present. There are WowWee people, and people with connections to WowWee in the forum... maybe a pic (if available) and at least a small paragraph describing the product.

There are earlier WowWee products that I WISHED I purchased when they had been available. The earlier 'bio bots' and the Cyber Spider(??) to name a couple (initially I found those on the Edmund Scientific store website). I was kind of 'busy' with heart problems, heart surguries at the time. I've been googling / researching Mark Tilden's earlier work lately, and it's very interesting. Including things that were never released as products... B.E.A.M. snakes and so forth.

I registered here too late to voice opinions on the threads; to effect 'what WowWee products are you most interested in', but I'll take the opportunity to say that currently I am watching out for BioBugs and FemiSapien.

The Cyber Spider was 'very cool' looking. Pretty simple; a silver spider, remote controlled, and I think it had IR collision avoidance. Some programmability, I believe. I wanted to get one when I found it at the Edmund Scientifics website, but at the time I was in and out of hospitals (a lot - they were overhauling my heart) This was at least 2-3 or 4 years ago.

I found a reference on a WowWee hacking site... sorry, I don't remember the site... it was a PDF of the CyberSpider manual. A simple manual, it had line drawings of the thing.

On a side note, I would be interested in reproducing Mark Tilden's original work / philosophy to some extent. Simple B.E.A.M. bots; I have been looking for schematics, haven't found any good sites (yet).

Try some of the videos linked to this thread...

http://www.robocommunity.com/forum/thread/11582/My-Big-WowWee-Collection/?

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JeffTX said: ...Simple B.E.A.M. bots; I have been looking for schematics, haven't found any good sites (yet).

Check out http://www.solarbotics.net/ for a wad of BEAM related stuff. Also the book "Bugbots, Junkbots, and Bots on Wheels" (co-authored by Mark Tilden) has some decent BEAM tidbits.

Watch out, don't step in the anthropomorphization.

Rudolph: Thanks for those links. Especially beam-online, I bookmarked the site, lots of good info.

JeffTX said: The Cyber Spider was 'very cool' looking. Pretty simple; a silver spider, remote controlled, and I think it had IR collision avoidance. Some programmability, I believe. I wanted to get one when I found it at the Edmund Scientifics website, but at the time I was in and out of hospitals (a lot - they were overhauling my heart) This was at least 2-3 or 4 years ago. I found a reference on a WowWee hacking site... sorry, I don't remember the site... it was a PDF of the CyberSpider manual. A simple manual, it had line drawings of the thing. On a side note, I would be interested in reproducing Mark Tilden's original work / philosophy to some extent. Simple B.E.A.M. bots; I have been looking for schematics, haven't found any good sites (yet).

I, too, have found many products released by WowWee that I never knew they made. I've even passed up on items at the Thrift Store because at the time I didn't realize that it was made by them. Cyber Spider was one that I didn't let get away! Here's a picture of that one, with a more detailed write up and a manual for it on my site: www.RobotsAndComputers.com/cyber_spider.htm

The hack page that was mentioned can be found here: http://re-re.perso.cegetel.net/robotique/cyberspider/cyberspe.html

I would love to see a list of all the products released by WowWee as well...

Derek Tombrello
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JeffTX said: RebelTaz: YES, thats the one! I wish I had one (but I don't trust e-bay). I forgot about the 'wristwatch-style' controller - 'that too' (is what makes it cool). BTW: Your first link is broken ('Here's a picture of that one, with a more detailed write up and a manual for it on my site:'); but I found the correct link by 'backtracking': http://www.robotsandcomputers.com/robots/collection.php?page=25 The Cyber Spider hack link is OK.

Aww heck! I thought it worked when I tested it! I went back and edited tthe link... it should work now... 

Derek Tombrello
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Deep Thought said: Like the web site RebelTaz, is it yours? Link worked for me. Spider looks large, or is it just the photos?

Thank you.. it is mine.

The size is probably just the pictures. The size is 3½" tall x 8½" wide x 6" long.

Derek Tombrello
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Hi, I had to write you since you joined on my birthday !! I am trying to find an older plastic toy robot dog. about 6 or 7 years ago. I think the name is Cyber Watch Dog. I want the older version. I have seen the newer one, and it looks like mine,. same grey color, same zig=zag mouth, same square boxy head. but it is updated. If you can help with any info on this olcder toy please let us know ! thanks again for caring. Kirby and Barbara   at  bkyard24@wmconnect.com       nite !!!