Well I picked the soldering iron in my hand since birth. Making hacks and mods is where all the fun is. Turning trashed electronics into a robot is the life for me and adding new features to the WowWee robots as well. I just wish that WowWee would provide a flowchart or even better the schematics for the bots we work on. Since we do not have these it makes us work just that much harder to grab the firmware, dissemble it into assembly language then create a flowchart from that and getting a timing chart as the last step. For those just starting in this field really the simplest hack is adding LEDs to their bot and makes it harder to really learn how to hack without spending a lot of time an money on electronic books and hacking books. What we need here in our community is more advance hacking tips or even a basic electronics learning thread. I am willing to start one if there are others out here that can also help out by adding simple yet advanced schematic hacks. If we have enough interest I'll set one up for everyone.

Jax

GWJax, To Hack and make mods on robots is a life style and comes natural and not by choice. If a robot has a screw to open it then it must be opened!

OK Commander, I'll start at the basics of learning electronics and will add a little at a time so it does not overwhelm everyone. There is so much to learn and not just electronics but how to make and form the body shells and using parts from old electronic junk "But this is GOLD to us" I'll start getting my nuts and bolts together and get that thread started this weekend.. Plus once this thread is started anyone can add their knowledge as well but just stay on the topic until a new part is added.

Jax

GWJax, To Hack and make mods on robots is a life style and comes natural and not by choice. If a robot has a screw to open it then it must be opened!

Very interesting and I am also willing to do such mod thing.

My goal is to turn Rovio to be a general platform of robot development and ultimate possibility can be there, then.