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RoboScout Internals: Preliminaries:
Introduction When I first saw a RoboScout at our San Diego Robotics Society meeting, I knew I had to have one. They're delightful, entertaining, and to an aspiring robot builder like me, a wonderful source of inspiration. When we looked inside, I knew I had to have at least two: in addition to RoboScout's other charms, he appears to be very hackable! Before long, I'd talked myself into buying six of them! When two arrived damaged, that was all the excuse I needed to tear one apart to "see how it works." In addition to being a fun thing to do, I wanted to photograph what's inside RoboScout and to encourage other potential hackers by documenting as much as I could along the way. My good friend Alberto Gobbi was just as enthusiastic about the whole project as I, and between the two of us, we managed to take quite a few photos of internal mechanisms along with detailed notes while reducing one RoboScout to a pile of parts. I hope these pages will be useful to fellow RoboScout hackers. I do add to them from time to time, so check back for updates. Please do tell me about any errors you find. If you have additional information or experiences that would be of value to RoboScout hackers, I would be very glad to include that information in these pages. Thanks to Alberto for working with me to dismantle a RoboScout and create useful documentation of the process. We had a lot of fun doing this!
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