Hi heatherbergh

Sorry for not answering you, I had a difficult year...

No, I can't make any registering for Delta on the pleoworld site, it's doesn't work... but it's not a big deal actually

At the expense of the speaker, this is not a software error, but the wires have broken. And everything else... Try flashing it, it might help. If this doesn't help, most likely the electronics inside will die.

Hi - you have to remember that - like so many of the toy robotics we play with now - are actually very very old. I have a number of I-Cybies - fortunately all working. Like the Robosapiens and others - the plastic around the wiring is now very brittle and can break off small soldered joints very easily - my educated guess is that the wires have simply come off the speaker unit.

Now - it's not easy to get in there to fix it even if you're up to some fairly delicate soldering - and the risk of disconnecting even more wires is great unless you're super careful.

If you really want advice as to how to strip the I-Cybie down then post here again - I don't often check in - every few days - but I'll try to help.

If you're not up to dismantling and soldering then you have a mute I-Cybie - sorry about that .... I could always sell you another ... I have several.

There's nothing you (or anyone else) can do about the internal software program that's running the dog - it's just not accessible ....

Regards,  Mick

Hello everyone,

I have a problem with my I-Cybie, I received it yesterday and until today I can't fix the sound making, the icybie is silent, even pressing the remote in the right way doesn't make any sound. I've tried resetting, entering advanced mode but I don't know if I'm doing it wrong or not, the icybie continues to make no sound....

would any of you give advice to help me ?

Thank you so much Taoworm23!  This is sooo informative and I'm learning a lot here.  I noticed you mentioned that the ingredient that is of interest here to plasticize is the paraffin oil. Do you think plain paraffin oil would work like the ones they use for medical use for physical therapy in humans? 

I'm just thinking it would be less toxic since I worry about the heptane in Gibbs since it's neurotoxic.  Your thoughts?

Thanks again.

Ok I have some facts about pleos skin...please make note of it.

Pleos skin was made by GLS using the Dynaflex™ Thermoplastic Elastomer brand process contains a block structure of Styrene-Ethylene/Butylene-Styrene (SEBS).

A company named APEX worked with UGOBE Inc and JETTA on the paint project for the PLEO dinosaur skin which is made of elastomeric paint.

Gibbs contains no silicones ( Teflons or otherwise)
The three main components in Gibbs are:
iso-propanol (an alcohol)
heptane (a hydrocarbon solvent)
petroleum distillates (CAS no.64742-54-7, which is a paraffin) a heavy solvent refined paraffinic (read waxy oil).

(The abnormally highly refined paraffin oil in Gibbs is used as the extender oil to replace the plasticizing oil in Pleos skin)

My Blue Pleo has recently developed a handful of issues and I was looking for some opinions on what may be wrong. He basically can't read any foods now, I have to feed him with ChangeRB, and even then he has a hard time reading the item that he has to hold in his mouth to eat. He also has a bad speaker, when he turns his head to the right it goes quiet, and is sometimes very crackly. He has also recently started only booting intermittingly, after a few resets he's booted a few days in a row, but no idea if it'll happen soon again or not. Would this be something internal I could open him up and look for or is it a software thing, or both?

Hi Un,


I have used a 2Gb SD card without problems on my Ugobe. I'm not sure if I used it on version 1.0


Cheers!


Peter

Hi Un,


Is it possible that the POP script did not work/finish correctly?  Would it be worth it to try to run it again?


Did you get a chance to look at the multicolored neck wiring harness?


Cheers,


Peter

This collection of messages is concerning:

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WARN: vm: No main function found. Will stop trying.
WARN: drive: no function with the name of emotion_eval: File or function is not found
INFO: high: application: No App loaded.
INFO: vm: No startup script to load.
INFO: vm: Function main not found.
WARN: vm: No main function found. Will stop trying.

I think maybe dino is rebooting because their is no app and the watchdog resets it. I have him powered off a lab supply and I know the current and voltage are stable.

I am using the SD card images and a 2GB SD card. Maybe its still to big for a 2008 embedded controller? I just formatted the SD as FAT and pasted the files onto the drive. Anything else I am suppose to do?

Until I solve the boot loop issue I can not access him via the USB port.

Hi Um,


I was re-reading your initial post and I may really have a good clue!  If this Pleo had damage to the neck vertebrae, it is quite possible that the data lines going to the head cpu got damaged (pinched chaffed or cut).


They are quite small (like 26AWI) and suffer from crosstalk and EMI problems due to their length and the EMI noise from the pleo servos.  If one or more of them is compromised, it may corrupt the data being sent to and from the head cpu during upgrade and or boot.


The wire harness has a choke mounted around it to help prevent noise but I have seen some chokes cracked due to rough handling of the Pleo.


Just another of my wild ideas!


Cheers!


Peter