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Title: Anyone have a non-workin' pleo?
Post by: allosaurus on June 09, 2009, 06:11:36 PM: Just wondering, since I discovered that if you take the battery out of Pleo and put it on its back, you can look down inside and you'll see a microchip with words on it. I'm just dying to know what they say. I've heard about a button that says, "RESET SW" but I don't think the one I saw is that one...

Any volunteeers to take apart a non-working Pleo?
Title: Re: Anyone have a non-workin' pleo?
Post by: Helens on June 13, 2009, 10:55:54 PM: Ifixit did a teardown of a Pleo: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Pleo/597/1
Page 3 has all of the electronics boards, though there doesn't appear to be any reset button.
Although I believe with a bit of digging around, you could reset the Pleo through the USB/serial connection: 'reset' is a command option, though I'm unsure whether they mean "restart" or "clear everything and reset to factory defaults."
Hope that helps?
Title: Re: Anyone have a non-workin' pleo?
Post by: allosaurus on June 14, 2009, 05:27:10 AM: I think it means the latter option....

But thanks for the article. It's rather helpful!
Title: Re: Anyone have a non-workin' pleo?
Post by: allosaurus on June 24, 2009, 05:11:55 AM: I'm sorry, that wasn't hepful actually. My computer was on the verge of shutting down auto in 15 seconds. >:(

So, what I was talking about, I dscovered a little bit more. Again, everybody, this is in the battery hole.
The words said something about black, red, and white. ??? If anyone has a camera, could you just turn Pleo on its back and take a picture into the battery hole and post it here?
Title: Re: Anyone have a non-workin' pleo?
Post by: allosaurus on July 17, 2009, 03:28:59 PM: I'm refreshing this topic since I know of several people now who have taken apart Pleo.
Title: Re: Anyone have a non-workin' pleo?
Post by: degers on July 17, 2009, 05:33:35 PM: The dino-mite reset command just restarts pleo from power up, it doesn't reset any variables as far as I have seen.
Title: Re: Anyone have a non-workin' pleo?
Post by: allosaurus on July 18, 2009, 06:33:21 AM: I'd like to know about the board that is in the battery slot.... Oddly, it has a few colors listed on it. I'd like to know what they all mean.
Title: Re: Anyone have a non-workin' pleo?
Post by: Burberry016 on July 18, 2009, 10:36:14 AM: I don't know either.
Title: Re: Anyone have a non-workin' pleo?
Post by: allosaurus on July 19, 2009, 05:42:25 AM: Quote from: Burberry016 on July 18, 2009, 10:36:14 AM
I don't know either.

Do you see it, too?

Isn't it weird? Red, black, and white?
Title: Re: Anyone have a non-workin' pleo?
Post by: Burberry016 on July 19, 2009, 06:26:18 AM: I used my magnifying lens :). This is EXACTLY what it says-
RED(+)
BLACK(-)
WHITE(NTC)
What that means, I don't know, but what I do know is that Red, Black, and White are colors.
Title: Re: Anyone have a non-workin' pleo?
Post by: allosaurus on July 19, 2009, 03:46:34 PM: So apparently red is positive for something, black is negative for the same thing, and white is..... Uh, neutral-tech-color? I don't think so. XD Though it is neutral, and it is a color...
Title: Re: Anyone have a non-workin' pleo?
Post by: Burberry016 on July 27, 2009, 03:02:54 PM: ntc is a special artificial programmed brain (tells motors what to do). I know this from Mindstorms Lego set :).
Title: Re: Anyone have a non-workin' pleo?
Post by: allosaurus on July 27, 2009, 06:54:35 PM: Sooo...... Are there motors attached to it? But still, what of the colors? 0____0

This is extremely odd. ~_~'

(Oh, and I feel like I really should've known what NTC meant XD)
Title: Re: Anyone have a non-workin' pleo?
Post by: ScribbleMonkey on July 27, 2009, 11:30:59 PM: Whats your looking at is the board that deals with Pleo's battery. NTC refers to the thermistor that the battery uses to determine if its to hot or not. the + and - are for those charges on the battery.