i-Cybie Preservation Project (i-Preserve Cybie)

my gold i-Cybie Copper

uh oh he angy

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8:14 PM

My cybies

I know this is a cybie server but is this what I think it is

I-CYBOT

8:37 PM

the big sibling to the cybies

OH ITS NOT IM STUPID NVM HABAHAHA (edited)

I have one

8:38 PM

too

I thought it was a Maaron haha

8:38 PM

Cool! I didn’t know that they made a model before cybie

8:38 PM

Very cool

Yeah I think they got released in 2000

8:39 PM

Not much documentation on them but I do have a pdf of the manual

8:39 PM

https://discord.com/channels/1204335793334652969/1210426065626071131/1210426065626071131

8:40 PM

The year my i-cybot has is 2000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwjpDQR1jCI

SkylarZYX

My Silverlit i-Cybot, Norbert

https://www.ebay.com/itm/176521180739

I-Cybie Rare Silverlit Prototype with AIBO-Shaped Head

Tiger subsequently redesigned the prototype i-Cybie to make it look more like a dog and less like the AIBO ERS-110. The electronic pet was first released in January 2001.". The Silverlit prototype is "naked" with all the wiring and PC boards exposed, but without any outer plastic shell components.

I’ll send u guys all info I get on this fella

11:39 AM

I’ve been able to pretty much reverse engineer the BN-1 I can hopefully do the same with this dude

hope you enjoy it michael :D congratulations, im super glad it went to someone in the community who also has a ton of expertise to be able to document it and also work on it and understand it!

yes please doo!!

11:41 AM

we need some more info's on these cool lil guys

11:41 AM

congrats again man

11:42 AM

hope you're able to figure out how the prototype works

11:42 AM

I'm really curious

even the seller posed this sort of challenge! :D

this is gonna be a big milestone for the project

i agree! this and the downloader, that ebay seller has basically singlehandedly restored the flow of water to the spring of this community! it might be worth trying to chat with them, it seems like they know their stuff about animatronic collecting x)

Yea

They do not seem to know how to use the chat function on eBay

12:34 PM

lol

12:34 PM

But I’ll document as much as I can

12:34 PM

I was able to repair a bn-1 I can handle this (I think) (edited)

I bought the downloader so we can mess with that too! If you ever find any junk with parallel ports lmk!

Oooo okay

I know some old cheap dell desktops from the 90s had those

Einfari

I bought the downloader so we can mess with that too! If you ever find any junk with parallel ports lmk!

Would an adaptor not work?

Tried that. Those adaptors never have i/o support

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Ooft

I can't wait to see how this prototype cybie works

7:36 PM

This is probably information that the original i-cybie community could never get ahold of

7:37 PM

So little documentation for these guys

There's hardly any media at all

10:58 AM

Heck that eBay listing showed more of prototype ICybie than the community has ever seen

10:59 AM

I wouldn't be surprised if something probably existed a long time ago on one of the now defunct forums

11:01 AM

Miss those forums it's a shame they were lost to time

I am still mad about the old yahoo group being gone

I wonder where the people who were in the original cybie community are now

3:11 PM

it used to be such a big gathering

I do too. Probably moved on to newer things. I opened the I cybie lot and the walk up charger are both 2005s. I wonder if the owner has multiples and swapped them. The dogs came with like 4 2005 Era batteries, two walk up charger cartridges, and two z cybie cartridges which makes me super happy because customization potential

10:26 AM

@Michael [Mike’s Tech Shack] if you find any working laptops with parallel ports in the work trash lmk!

I may have one lying around lol

10:43 AM

If not I could def help u find a good one on eBay

Huge cybie news

2:52 PM

Stay tuned for this Thursday. I’ll open it up around then

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The anticipation will kill me

Omggg

Hey guys I do in fact have the package! I gotta unpack a bit before I open it tho

stay tuned

yeeeeeeeeeeeeee

7:05 PM

so excited

thank you again for doing this

what a gift!! icybieemoniconhappygold

Don't tell me I missed it!!!

11:06 PM

@Michael [Mike’s Tech Shack]

Post pictures dammit

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It’s him

reAL

2:02 PM

I’ll get more pics later but he made it safe and sound

WOWWWW

2:04 PM

Ngl that pcb looks a lot simpler than the final version

2:05 PM

only thing is that there seems to be no color coding of wires

The battery uses an entirely different connector

2:05 PM

Also look how the limbs are set up lol

2:05 PM

poor guy looks uncomfortable lol

His head seems to have like… Aibo-esque DHS too

2:06 PM

Droopy head <3

flop

Eeesh yup sure enough I already see a split gear

2:07 PM

2:08 PM

He seems to only have like 2 split gears. I can handle that

Nice

2:08 PM

that's good

2:08 PM

never seen a cybie have DHS before

2:08 PM

first time lol

Really takes after the design inspo

The fella

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2:09 PM

In case anyone was curious

2:10 PM

They put IR in the nose

2:10 PM

No button there

@Einfari @CyberDreZ

2:10 PM

check it!

The way the head works is actually similar to robosapien

Thanks for the photos, I’ve only ever seen the famous low quality prototype videos so this is nice to see

I think I've seen other protos with head left right rotation but this model just make it go up and down

2:11 PM

does the head rotate?

Michael [Mike’s Tech Shack]

They put IR in the nose

that must be how they detect obstacles and receive ir signals right

oh ky god

2:19 PM

all soldered

They soldered a whole ide cable worth of connections

2:20 PM

Absolutely insane

2:20 PM

I don’t think there are any connectors

2:20 PM

It’s all soldered

Idek how they were able to work with all that

2:22 PM

and on a PROTOTYPE

Me neither u KNOW this thing was open constantly

2:23 PM

I now see why they liked to start smoking LOL

it definitely looks like it was all done by hand

2:24 PM

really glad the final I cybie models are much easier to work with because of the color coded connectors

2:25 PM

This model must've been before Andy filo redesigned it

It's so awesome

the structure of the robot is so different

2:26 PM

the legs look a bit similar

2:27 PM

the tail def doesn't seem much diff to the final

I think this one may be broken then:(

2:28 PM

Not entirely sure

2:28 PM

I bet I can fix it tho

2:28 PM

The split get in the neck looks identical to the ones Dre helped me repair in the legs

https://www.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/pdf/47650/WINBOND/W27C010-70.html that winbond chip is an eeprom (edited)

W27C010-70 Datasheet(PDF)

Part #: W27C010-70. Download. File Size: 169Kbytes. Page: 15 Pages. Description: 128K X 8 ELECTRICALLY ERASABLE EPROM. Manufacturer: Winbond.

2:36 PM

128kb I think it is

Michael [Mike’s Tech Shack]

Click to see attachment 🖼️

That other big chip must be the cpu

Probably!

2:38 PM

I may have an eeprom reader that fits that chip

2:38 PM

I’ll see if I can find it

The packaging of the cpu kinda looks like a RISC processor (edited)

2:39 PM

it has a lot of pins

2:41 PM

I also wonder if this cybie has more than one cpu like the final version which had like 3

2:45 PM

that battery connector looks hella weird

2:45 PM

I've seen battery that size before tho

2:46 PM

kinda looks like the 9.6v nimh battery I have for my I cybot

2:49 PM

just has the regular 2 pin red and black tamiya connector (edited)

2:50 PM

silverlit really just put an entire PC inside a robot for I cybie

2:51 PM

Sony did too for aibo but silverlit has been known for making cheap toy stuff (edited)

2:51 PM

I cybie was def one of their big project

@Michael [Mike’s Tech Shack] sorry to dm, i just wanted to ask, what is your plan going forward with the proto? looks like alot of repairs need to happen, and thats just mechanically. it is sad to see the neck even broken. according to the listing it should at least power on the eyes, do you plan to try getting it to move at all?

3:09 PM

also thank so you much for the documentation here. looks like a cool little guy!! your commentary of the robot is very thorough and you did a very good job recording and showing the spots you were talking about (ive seen a fair share of youtube videos that just fail at this...)

3:16 PM

oops i didnt mean "dm" i meant ping. thank you once again for the documentation and going out of your way to purchase the proto. i also wanted to ask if einfari was able to get a look at it

This is so interesting to see now that I am finally caught up! I am curious what will all work after fixing the split neck gear and shitty battery. Also odd it has 9.5 V and not 12 V batt

5:12 PM

Also you should name it Tati. I reminds me of that weird 1950s robot called Tati because it is a rats nest similarly. No one knows what the hell the real Tati actually is.

Reading the eeprom would be cool too or seeing if it has a serial port

It doesn’t have any ports unfortunately

5:35 PM

I think they literally just flashed the eeprom directly

5:35 PM

It’s on a removable chip board

5:36 PM

It just so happens I have a chip puller

5:36 PM

(I work on vintage computers)

Hopefully it is easy to remove and isn't epoxied over like production I cybies and furbies

It doesn’t appear to be!

That would be perfect!

Awesome

6:40 PM

I'm very curious to see what that processor is

6:41 PM

and whatever data that eeprom contains

6:41 PM

could possibly dump all that info into a file and preserve it here

of course! whatever i find ill make publicly available:)

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Small update: I’ve come up with a name

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7:18 PM

Thanks to my buddy H22, he shall henceforth be named Cybo

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7:18 PM

A fusion of cybie and aibo

Michael [Mike’s Tech Shack]

Small update: I’ve come up with a name

Sup Cybo!

I love the name

3:58 PM

Very fitting

4:02 PM

He does look like e cybo pooch more than the final cybie

Cybo in clone high

4:09 PM

Little shout out to this ers-111 looking guy

Small update: I tried plugging his battery in for shits and giggles and the eye leds lit up for a split second and some sound I’ve never heard before came out of the speakers before he shut back off

6:31 PM

Huh it just did it again

6:32 PM

Gonna cease my meddling for now but this is a good sign

6:32 PM

Battery may have some life left in it after all

Gonna need to find out what connector this thing is using so I can safely charge this battery up using my hobby RC charger

6:37 PM

But then we may finally see the boy running

6:37 PM

He looked like he was running in the listing photos

WOoo

7:34 PM

hope to see a vid of him running !

Michael [Mike’s Tech Shack]

Gonna need to find out what connector this thing is using so I can safely charge this battery up using my hobby RC charger

Could ya not do it with alligator clips or anything similar? I mean I don't blame ya if you don't wanna take the risk

9:00 PM

Could we get an up close of the battery connector

9:44 PM

I could but I wanna be safe here

looks like it has 3 pins and just a different connector shape

Might take a multimeter and verify the voltages, although I'm sure it's prob the same as the production

I’ve got a smart charger that should be able to charge it fine I just need to make a connector for it lol

7:36 AM

It looks a lot like MOLEX to me

7:36 AM

Only smaller

7:37 AM

Just checked

7:37 AM

Yup I think it’s molex haha

7:37 AM

W

Apologies for the lack of updates, I’m currently trying to knock a bunch of other projects out before starting on the cybie. Rest assured I WILL get to it tho

No worries bro take ur time

2:48 PM

College just started for me so imma be a lot busy too

The black huanyu batteries from 2001 tiger/silverlit

i cybie

Werm Moon

The black huanyu batteries from 2001 tiger/silverlit

the og batteries (edited)

Should I buy one, and where should I purchase and what should I know before I do.so

I cybies are definitely worth to have! In the US, they're mostly sold on ebay and shopgoodwill (and other online stores as well) Just know that I cybies are not as advanced as something like an aibo since their original firmware is quite limited when it comes to autonomy. Most features of i cybie come from the remote. They are capable of being programmed though if you have the cartridges and a downloader (or someone you know who has a downloader)/arduino cartridge programmer. They can do some real cool stuff if you do program them (e.g. Z-Cybie software, gives more autonomy for i cybies) (edited)

Thought he could sneak into my search

Hey guys, small update on cybo my one of a kind prototype icybie. He is doing well but ive had a lot of other projects ive been working on and haven’t had the time to get to him. However, today im going to attempt to charge his battery. Will send some videos if everything goes smoothly, not gonna be for a few hours but!! Figured id let everyone who is still interested know! And would like to sincerely apologize for the wait. I’m almost done with school and free time is sparse lol

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12:57 PM

So far the only axis i know for sure is faulty is the gearbox that moves the neck up and down. I can see that it appears to have a cracked gear which makes the entire axis go limp(basically it slips)

12:58 PM

The goal right now is to see if he even powers up, once i do that ill look at restoring him to his former glory

12:58 PM

I have high hopes as when I first got him i connected the battery and for a split second his eyes lit up red and the speaker made some sound, but i think that was the very last of the battery’s energy lol

Went ahead and ordered everything I need to make this fella a charger. He will be real soon

I want to see him goooo! Will you be in MN for Thanksgiving break?

I will be! I can bring him over if you’d like

Yes!!!! Cybie party!

Hey small update. The connector I said would work with this pack is too big. I’ve gone ahead and ordered a smaller one. Expect some sort of update later this week if this other connector works. Funny thing is it’s just a standard 3POS MOLEX connector haha

10:22 AM

Nothing custom

10:23 AM

Really neat

10:23 AM

The connector I purchased was too large tho. So here’s hoping this other one is the right size

RAGHHH SUCCESS

6:13 PM

Will attempt to charge the pack tomorrow

Pack is pretty badly worn, thankfully it’s nicad so I’m attempting to resurrect it now

This is about all I got it to do prior to attempting to resurrect the pack

12:22 PM

Lmao

12:23 PM

I did at one point get it to boot. A little led on its forehead lit up green. I pressed the head button and he made like a cartoon clingclang noise and his eyes cycled thru all the colors before shutting off abruptly (edited)

12:23 PM

Head also did move at one point under its own power randomly

12:23 PM

Or mouth rather

12:24 PM

Seems like the battery connection isn’t very good and it doesn’t help that the battery dropped from full capacity to like 6v in a matter of minutes. Again thankfully it’s a nicad so it’ll more than likely be able to be resurrected (edited)

Michael [Mike’s Tech Shack]

This is about all I got it to do prior to attempting to resurrect the pack

I suspect this was just an undervolting issue. I’ve seen robotic toys behave like this when they don’t have enough juice to get going haha

12:28 PM

So I’m gonna shift my focus to bringing the battery back

12:28 PM

If I can

I want to see him go after a recell!

Absolutely, have spent all weekend exercising the old pack to wake it up

7:27 PM

So far so good

8:30 PM

Signs of life

Yooo that is cooooool!

8:32 PM

your second vid looks like this cybie has some jam detection since it pauses after attempting to lay down it seems

8:35 PM

the motors sound a lot more quieter than the final version thats for sure

Yeah the way the motors move is much smoother

8:54 PM

They seem to have stall detection too which is handy

8:54 PM

I’m guessing these right here are the motor drivers

8:54 PM

8:55 PM

Head needs a lot of its gears replaced for sure (edited)

8:55 PM

At least 2 gears that I know of

8:56 PM

One of which I can physically see is split

8:56 PM

The other one is somewhere in the head

I love how it has a little rave before trying to boot

Gotta love prototype software lol. I can tell what it’s trying to do tho! It’s very clearly trying to do the limb calibration thing

3:02 PM

But the head seems to make it error out

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Slowly but surely he’s waking up

I THINK HES CALIBRATING??? Also I can confirm he does have a pan axis head motor!!!

9:57 PM

HE BOOTED

9:57 PM

Also

10:54 PM

Very weird thing I noticed

10:54 PM

The dog doesn’t use potentiometers

10:54 PM

It has little endstops similar to something like a roboquad or robosapien.

10:54 PM

Like

10:54 PM

On all the limbs

10:54 PM

And be cause of that good god does he move smooth

10:55 PM

Explains the proto cybie promos

10:55 PM

The motor moves at a constant speed until it reaches a limit

10:55 PM

As opposed to a retail cybies “move and check” potentiometer behavior

10:55 PM

A limitation I’m guessing is due to whatever processor they used

Really cool. I remember Andy Filo talking about how the original silverlit prototype models had a more simple gear box and used no pots at all while redesigning them, from an old cybie article. (edited)

7:46 PM

that probably explains why not all the motors move to the exact spots or angles all the time for the early prototypes

7:49 PM

the calibration process is quite weird since he just lays flat while doing it instead of going on his sides like the retail ones, but could be due to the limitations in the limbs or something, very interesting (edited)

7:53 PM

I love how he just greets you by making Lil barking sounds and sits down with green eyes. I think its a lot more lively than the retails boot process when it just quickly calibrates head and leg motors, and goes straight to whatever mood it was on previously (edited)

Mike

the calibration process is quite weird since he just lays flat while doing it instead of going on his sides like the retail ones, but could be due to the limitations in the limbs or something, very interesting (edited)

It’s because it doesn’t use pots! Essentially what it’s doing is moving every limb to its limit switch

10:54 AM

On my retail cybie it will move the limbs slowly and smoothly till their limits and then do a stall test (the buzzing you hear after the limb finishes moving)

10:55 AM

These simply move to their limit and back

10:55 AM

However one of the switches or wiring for the switch appears to be faulty but that shouldn’t be to hard to fix as it’s literally just like (edited)

10:55 AM

On or off

However I haven’t rly tried to trace the wire yet

11:02 AM

It’s a bit of a rats nest lol

11:03 AM

I dunno how silverlit was able to work on the robot with allat

11:07 AM

you'd think a prototype would have some easy way to take apart since they probably happens very often, but they literally just soldered everything instead of making connectors LOL

11:08 AM

and GLUE???

11:09 AM

I'm so glad the retail cybies have a much better design with connectors and easier to take apart. thank you Mr. Filo and the ole redesigning crew from tiger (edited)

11:12 AM

I'll give the og silverlit design one thing though is that you can replace the eeprom easily cause that isn't soldered in

The amount of rats nest that thing is blows my mind.

Mike

I'll give the og silverlit design one thing though is that you can replace the eeprom easily cause that isn't soldered in

Yup its socketed:) just need an old school chip puller:) still got mine that i used with all my old computers

Anyone have any idea how an I cybie battery pack is wired, the nicad that my prototype came with just kicked the bucket lol, gonna attempt to make a new one for it using NiMH cells but I know that there’s a 3rd wire in cybie packs for some reason

11:44 AM

Anyone have any pics of how everything is wired up internally? Keep in mind this pack is smaller and a lower voltage than the production dogs

11:47 AM

I would prefer to not tear down the prototype battery even if it is mostly just a standard off the shelf pack minus the middle wire (edited)

11:48 AM

So if anyone has any info it would be greatly appreciated

11:48 AM

Thanks!:)

I wish I knew

12:19 PM

I know t8f sells cybie batteries that they make on Ebay, they probably know how to deal with things like that

12:20 PM

https://www.ebay.com/itm/235834411110

i-Cybie Battery Pack New Aftermarket 1300 mAh

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for i-Cybie Battery Pack New Aftermarket 1300 mAh at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!

12:21 PM

you can probably message them any questions about it.

this is the only wiring diagram i know of from theoldrobots site here

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cheriidraco

this is the only wiring diagram i know of from theoldrobots site here

This is precisely what I was looking for. Thank you

1:49 PM

I theorized that the yellow wire was for 6v components. I’m curious how they have it wired up for a 9.6v pack… (2 less cells)

1:49 PM

I think it’s probably gonna involve me opening the proto pack. It’s on its last legs anyway. I just wanna make sure I give everything the proper voltages

1:51 PM

I might measure the voltage from the yellow wire at a full charge but I have no clue how accurate that would be. Didnt rly consider that LOL

1:51 PM

The sag on this pack is horrendous as soon as u disconnect load or a charger the voltage starts tanking. Done everything in my power to resurrect it and it’s definitely working better than when I initially got it but not by much

cheriidraco

this is the only wiring diagram i know of from theoldrobots site here

thanks dude. how tf did I forget about this

(edited)

Michael [Mike’s Tech Shack]

Anyone have any idea how an I cybie battery pack is wired, the nicad that my prototype came with just kicked the bucket lol, gonna attempt to make a new one for it using NiMH cells but I know that there’s a 3rd wire in cybie packs for some reason

I have so many dead cybie batteries that you can just have one to futz with

BET LMAO

I have literally 10

12:49 PM

You can have my whole box of then I will buy back extras if you can recell them

I might take u up on that, tho to be honest i dont think itlll be necessary after seeing that diagram

1:40 PM

Also i barely have any experience spotwelding nickel based cells, im assuming/hoping its not too different from lithium ion packs but I haven’t seriously looked into it quite yet haha

Michael [Mike’s Tech Shack]

Also i barely have any experience spotwelding nickel based cells, im assuming/hoping its not too different from lithium ion packs but I haven’t seriously looked into it quite yet haha

It should be easier than lithium. I have done it poorly years ago

Oh really haha, good to know, i know nickel based packs care less about heat

Without a spot welder. It had power but did not fit. Yes I know that is bad now

Einfari

Without a spot welder. It had power but did not fit. Yes I know that is bad now

LMAOO incredibly cursed but i applaud u for trying, and at least it wasnt as bad as that cursed Pleo battery

Oh God. I am scared to know what that would look like. But it was actually so bad because I never had used a soldering iron before and used this shitty $20 kit that my coworker at the time found lying around. It was so fucking stupid (edited)

4:45 PM

I almost started one of the batteries on fire trying to solder it too. I am embarrassed even typing this.

Wait ein you haven’t seen the cursed pleo battery? Oh my god. I’ll dm u. This happened in RC like maybe a year ago

Einfari

I almost started one of the batteries on fire trying to solder it too. I am embarrassed even typing this.

Mod team had a field day lol

8:20 PM

I’ll find the pic and dm it to ya

8:21 PM

Insanely cursed

Hey guys small heads up, in the coming weeks im going to attempt to finally repair my prototype i cybie, would appreciate any help i could get from the community as i go along

9:24 AM

I plan to start with the leg assemblies as they appear to be mostly ok aside from one screaming gear (i hope to god its not the motor)

9:25 AM

From there ill move on to the head assembly, which will probably be the hardest task as from what i understand its pretty difficult to get access to (especially considering this dog has zero connectors and everything is hand soldered)

9:25 AM

If that all goes according to plan ill then dump the eeprom and make its data publicly available, and last but not least! Ill recell the original battery pack

9:26 AM

While I’ll be doing most of the handiwork here i would appreciate any help from the many experts in this server. Stay tuned!

9:26 AM

also, apologies once again for the wait haha, school has been incredibly busy but im beginning to wrap it all up so, expect more

If you need any of my tools or shit that would help just lmk!

Managed to safely remove the sticker from the CPU to get a better look at the part number. Then went ahead and put it back on for preservation purposes. This might help us make sense of the eeprom data i end up dumping

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must be some microcontroller from them

It’s time to dump the eeprom!

It fucking worked

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7:06 PM

Dumped the bin file and this was the result lol

7:09 PM

W27C010.BIN

128 KB

7:09 PM

here it is if anyone wants to mess with it

YOOOOO

9:29 PM

NOICE

Currently trying to take one of the cybies leg gearboxes apart

4:08 PM

Anyone have any tips

4:08 PM

I’ve taken like all the visible screws out

4:08 PM

I’m trying to get to the one in the shoulder

4:08 PM

Augh nvm I got to it but idk how the fuck u take these axels out

4:23 PM

Excuse my language

4:29 PM

Update. No this isn’t a screw

4:29 PM

Idk what this is lmao. Looks to be the clutch but also smth else??

Figured it out

4:53 PM

Shaft is press fit

Figured it out. Clutch teeth disintegrated lol

5:02 PM

This might be a part it shares with the production model. Here’s hoping

This is as far as the gearbox opens without desoldering anything. God this is stressful

5:21 PM

This has digital pots

5:37 PM

wtf lol

Update! Gearboxes have been cleaned and regreased, and the only split gear in the dog has been replaced! Task for tomorrow is to resolder the wires I cut having to pull the head assembly out

9:36 PM

After that, hopefully. We will be on the home stretch

NICE

9:37 PM

you were able to find a gear for the split one?

I actually happened to have one laying around

9:47 PM

Just needed its inner diameter bored out haha

9:48 PM

Funny think, the inside of the gearbox on this guy uses brass gears. So they cheaped out at launch for some reason

9:48 PM

In the hip gearboxes

9:48 PM

Also I found second hand replacement packs on Amazon, gonna try ordering one to see if it works.

9:48 PM

https://a.co/d/dsyzGPb

HJ 2 Pcs 9.6V 700mAh Rechargeable KET-3P Plug Ni-Cd Battery with Ch...

Package Content: 2 x battery 1 x USB charging cable Notice 1.Choose the EXACTLY same voltage battery which your equitment needed 2.Make sure to plug in the correct +/- pole and use the correct plug 3.Disconnect the battery and the equitment if not use for a long time 4.Keep out from fire

9:51 PM

Will need the connector changed but since I have them already that should be a piece of cake to switch over

9:55 PM

Fyi does anyone have a spare cybie leg they’d be willing to sell me? Need it for the clutch haha

Nvm bought a whole parts bot for like 15 bucks LMAOOOO

Got all the connections soldered back up and put some heatshrink on it all for good measure

3:42 PM

Cybo is all reassembled (temporarily) and ready for testing

Noice

Praying that cybo will be able to have a working neck again

Michael [Mike’s Tech Shack]

https://a.co/d/dsyzGPb

DANG nice find and its on Amazon too (edited)

Managed to find another split gear lol. Hopefully the head module is good now

11:08 PM

Happened to have the right size on hand again

oof that sucks but glad you got the right gear for it!

More progress

9:57 AM

Head working better

Look at it go!!!

11:02 AM

Or, attempt to

New battery arrived. Will do some more testing later today, have to convert the pack to the molex connector

11:17 AM

Here’s hoping the reason why it’s 3 pin is the exact same reason the proto cybie’s is. If not we may have a problem lol

Good news! Replacement packs appear to work! Bad news, forgot to order more connectors meaning I’ll have to wait till that arrives to convert this to be a battery that can be plug and play

3:58 PM

For now I’m just gonna charge the packs up

Holy fuck that’s more like it

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LETS GOOO

Motors sound more like a retail cybie now lol, I think that stock pack was cooked. Poor buddy was being undervolted this whole time

The connectors for the prototype cybie have arrived

Time to crimp up some nicads!

I know myself so well. I used all of the extra pins I ordered lmao I need to get good at crimping fr that was embarrassing

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4:15 PM

Moment of truth

His neck keeps going to its limit lol

4:51 PM

He works much better but he’s still having some issues in odd spots. Ugh

4:52 PM

Gonna need a spare cybie to diagnose at this point

Cybie nod

8:44 PM

He's so quirky and silly

8:45 PM

that pan axis is weird tho

8:48 PM

oh ye have you tried the remote on him before and see if he did anything?

I have not!

9:57 PM

Final update for the night this thing finds new ways to torture me LMAO fucking impossible assembly

HOW

10:30 PM

were they able to do all this shit

Why do I want to buy that super i cybie just to see how they did the usb shit. I have tried to do something like this myself and have gotten so close without any luck

Production cybie has arrived

5:33 PM

Going to be absolutely insanely busy recelling aibo packs this week tho so the most I’ll probably do is disassemble the production one

5:35 PM

He

5:36 PM

This is a perfect parts dog actually DAMN all his hips are fucked. Good (meaning this won’t go to waste!

5:42 PM

Ope had my first case of that nice brittle gold plastic

5:42 PM

One of the screw posts just

5:42 PM

Said bye bye

5:42 PM

Again perfect parts dog for this

I am glad it is the most perfect pile of shit for the job. I am excited to be away from work so I can do some projects tomorrow too! (edited)

These aren’t compatible

5:54 PM

Right off the bat

5:54 PM

Not insanely surprised

5:54 PM

So Cybo is just gonna be permanently double jointed

5:54 PM

(The end stops on the output shafts of one side of his body both broke off so he can just spin his legs till he runs out of wire. Incredible)

5:58 PM

Oh shit! It looks like the clutches actually use a little snapring to hold them together so it might actually be serviceable

5:58 PM

Here’s hoping it s a drop in replacement

5:58 PM

5:59 PM

On second thought I’m not sure

5:59 PM

Other side has a pot. Hmmm this could be interesting

5:59 PM

Hopefully some of this stuff comes in handy! Interesting to see changes in design too

Ooo wait

6:06 PM

EIN I CAN MAKE THESE WORK I THINK

Darn. I was hoping for good news and distractions from my own problems

this was the one part I was hoping I could fix with off the shelf parts aaaa I’m so happy

6:07 PM

No where did that tiny metal clip go…

Is it like the Jesus clip on 210s?

No it’s more like a circlip

6:07 PM

It’s all metal

6:07 PM

Holds the spring in place and keeps it under pressure

6:08 PM

This fella

6:08 PM

All the pot stuff popped off the other side too it’s not needed

Get a metal picker upper for your hobby room. James got one for the robot room and it does wonders for finding shit like that

Aghhh this is so awesome

Einfari

Get a metal picker upper for your hobby room. James got one for the robot room and it does wonders for finding shit like that

I found it haha

6:08 PM

I’m popping 2 of these out and putting them in a bag for later

Nice! This is the kind of news I need today

Idk if that extra pointy part will be too tall to fit the shoulder cladding over. However if it’s too long I can always just grind it down a bit HAHA

6:10 PM

That’s such good news

6:10 PM

This has me hopeful for the head assembly

Very true! I am excited to follow the progress of all this!

I just want bro to not try to break his neck every 5 seconds because he doesn’t know where his own neck is lol

6:10 PM

That would be nice

Same! Dude really did have dhs before it was cool

Goal here is to strip this thing down till it’s nothing but scrap haha

6:12 PM

Mostly

6:12 PM

I don’t rly wanna open the legs

6:12 PM

Eugh

6:13 PM

God damn the shoulder cladding is harder to get off on the production model

6:14 PM

Not to mention since this one is gold it’s trying to crumble in my hands haha

The good thing is most of it doesn't need to be salvaged. The earlier production golds are so shitty though. I had one too

lol yeah I really just need the gears which in this case are all intact

6:26 PM

Minus the shitty hip ones

6:26 PM

Which I don’t need cuz they wouldn’t even work

True. And even if we did there are replacements for them

Wow amazing look how easy the body splits in half when YOU USE FUCKING CONNECTORS

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6:34 PM

EUGH

6:36 PM

Dang that looks really similar

6:36 PM

I’m very hopeful now

6:36 PM

Only difference I see is they used a pancake motor instead of a standard one to move the neck

6:36 PM

Also the neck doesn’t move as far but knowing Cybo that might be because something is broken in his neck. Lol

6:37 PM

Damn the whole gearbox is held in with one screw

6:37 PM

Neat

6:39 PM

Ugh. It’s close but it doesn’t function the same way

6:39 PM

Darn

6:39 PM

The hunt continues

6:40 PM

Should’ve expected as much considering the production model uses pots instead of endstops

6:43 PM

Oh wow the head on the production model is way shittier

6:43 PM

Connectors gone

Moth assembly is entirely different

6:51 PM

Urg

6:51 PM

U win some u lose some I suppose

6:52 PM

It also looks like I’m gonna have my work cut out for me when it comes to replacing the speaker in my production cybie (edited)

6:53 PM

Would actually be easier to just replace his entire head module LMAOO

Michael [Mike’s Tech Shack]

Would actually be easier to just replace his entire head module LMAOO

Yikes. Is the head really that shitty? I hate how there is no real reference point to compare with for cybo if he is broken vs just has more range of motion

Couldbe. But I don’t know why it will move one way and detect a stop

7:02 PM

But then move the other way and just

7:02 PM

Shit itself lol

7:02 PM

Or why the hell they controlled that with 2 switches

7:02 PM

So fucking weird

7:02 PM

At least I can get to it easily now

7:02 PM

lol

7:03 PM

In conclusion

7:03 PM

What did we learn today. Cybo and production cybie AT most share one thing

7:03 PM

LMAOAOOA

7:03 PM

that’s how early in development Cybo is

7:03 PM

Pretty wild

Cybos definitely an icybie that was made and designed by the silverlit engineers themselves, before Andy Filo and Tiger Electronics did the redesign lol. (edited)

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Yup, HOWEVER. This specific model did belong to filo

8:06 PM

Kinda cool

Yeah that is real cool

8:10 PM

I wonder if there are any more early prototypes out there with shells and stuff

8:10 PM

Wonder if silverlit has them lying around in their warehouses somewhere

I do wonder if cybo ever had more shells or if he was even too early for that

I think he had shells at one point because the mounting points on his body show signs of stuff being screwed in there

9:20 PM

He has mounts for body panels

Putting the final touches on Cybo before he goes to his new home! I’ve repaired him to the best of my abilities, time to pass the torch onto someone else:)

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just wanna say, tysm michael for all the information given and repairs you did on Cybo, and for helping us preserve stuff about these robots that was previously lost in time. you've done an amazing contribution to the project

❤️ (edited)

9:00 AM

I do wonder which owner he'll be going to next!

They’ll more than likely make some sort of announcement! Also! Fun fact for anyone wondering. Other than the length of the shaft (which is why i suspect they changed the shoulder cladding design to be convex rather than concave) production model cybie shoulder clutches fit, however i wasnt able to get the clip in there. It’s really close and i think its propably doable tho, so in case the other owner wants to give it a shot, ill include the rest of the spare legs from the donor cybie

7:22 PM

Modern mod super cybie showed up today. It seems to only have the rx, TX, and ground connected because wiring to the 3.3 v part of the main board makes the dog do weird shit when plugged in like turn its lights on and move randomly.

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Super I-Cybie Robot Dog Cart Progammer Blue With Flash Cart And Se...

Simply connect your dog to your usb port download the software online and expand the possibilities of this amazing robot. No software is included with this robot you can download it for yourself. I have installed the serial port in the robots battery bay.

9:40 PM

The seller of my guy made another. If they keep selling I hope he keeps making more and gives the the schematics so there can be an army of them we can mess with ad a community

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https://youtu.be/_QrLyy5kfd0?si=7gZqWogHeKVolCxJ

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Ed Edd and Eddy I cybie personality

9:15 PM

First new cybie audio in 20 years? Maybe

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Cybie hacking in 2025!?!

You know it!