Rovio teardown
posted Oct 20th 2008 3:24pm by Caleb Kraftfiled under: led hacks, robots hacks
[Del] sent us what might be the first in an expected plethora of hacks on the Wowee Rovio. He was annoyed by the poor lighting for Rovio’s camera so he cracked it open and started hacking. He found there was just enough space for a couple LEDs in the head. The most difficult part of this was apparently running the wires for power into the main body of the rovio. He said it took him around 30 minutes just to snake the wires through the neck. The final result is best seen in the comparison pictures of rovio looking at Wall-E.
Also see my text-mode UI for Rovio http://code.google.com/p/asciirovio/
I thought it was funny :)
Posted at 4:04 pm on Oct 20th, 2008 by Del