Now, before the funko pop collectors start going feral and rip ME apart, let me tell you; I not only do have a spare Ozobot Evo Avengers Iron Man Action Skin by Evollve, Inc. that I'll be keeping as safe as I can, but the one I ripped apart (the one that I've had for a few years (and had already taken a bit of a beating from being stored loosely in a bin for a few years too) still works, and I put it back together perfectly fine! Now, onto the pictures!
(sadly these aren't as high quality as they can be, because GBAtemp can't handle my style. I'll put these up on gdrive or something because I don't feel like making another webpage for this)
That's what the skin looks like.
Seems like some dumb unmovable-yet-collectable INaction figure, right?
Well, you're only half right. It's actually got THREE RGB LEDS inside! Two for the arms, one for the head.
Plus, when you plug it into an Ozobot Evo (to power the lights, of course) it'll get new voice clips of iron man, PLUS it (used to) unlocks stuff in the app.
See?
Now, here's the fun part.. Here's the thing completely disassembled! (Mostly, anyway.)
And let's get a closer look at that board, shall we?
It's made by Jetta, which isn't that surprising to me, honestly.
They've made boards for not just Evollve/Ozobot, but also Wonder Workshop!
All of these boards are the guts of Dot, a robot by Wonder Workshop. And these boards are ALL made by Jetta..
Hell, on Jetta's website they even list Sphero as one of the companies they've worked for.. (Though I don't remember seeing Jetta's logo on any Sphero boards that I'VE seen myself)
Funny how they've worked for the 3 big guys in the home/school robotics industry, unless you count Lego.
Anyway, back to iron man.
Here's a look at the underside of the board.
Seems like internally the skins are kown as "ozobot2.0_skin", which makes sense because Evo itself is internally known as "ozobot_2.0", though not to be confused with the Ozobot Bit 2.0, which was the robot they made BEFORE Evo.
Now, let's look closer at that chip on the board.
Seems like they pulled a Commodore with this one!
Now, what do I mean by that?
Well, that chip is an STM8S003 K3T6C 9914V VG MYS 639, my friend!
Now, what in the sam hell is that, you ask? Well, pretty much a microcontroller in my opinion!
It's got 1 KB ram, 8 KB memory, and an 8-bit CPU (I think??)
For more info about that thang, check out the datasheet I found!
https://www.st.com/resource/en/datasheet/stm8s003f3.pdf
It's just that it kinda reminded me of how Commodore put 6502's in their disk drives so that you wouldn't need a controller for them.
In addition to that, there's also those unused(?) contacts next to the chip!
They're named "P2", which might not seem all that interesting until you realize that the contacts that the Micro USB cable is connected to are named "P1"!
I'm guessing P2 is for reading/writing the little memory there is on that chip, so that Evo will know which skin is connected (Since they DID make 5 after all) and know which sound files to use (I'm near certain that the sounds are stored on Evo, instead of in the skin- 8 KB ain't enough, man!!)
Well, that's pretty much it. Here's the bare board plugged into my white Evo: (aka Sky)
And some instructions on getting the board out:
Just (carefully, mind you) pry off this back part (outlined in green) until you can pull it out.
Then it oughta look a bit like this, but with the board inside of course. Just pull it out, and presto!
Well, cya next blog post!
OH! I also went skating for the first time recently. (Yesterday by the time you're reading this I think)
It was fun that I could go fast, but I had to use one of those things you hold onto so you don't need to balance much. I'm not sure what they're called standardly but I'd describe it as like one of those walker things old people use but on wheels. And made of PVC pipe.
I wish it was weighed down more because it is REALLY easy to accidentally lift it up when you start going fast enough. And when THAT happens, you start to fall over. And when THATTT happens, you instinctively put your hands out so that you don't hurt yourself, but instead you end up hurting your left hand a bunch and yet you still get up anyway.
That, but also it's hard to get actual momentum in skates, ESPECIALLY when you stand up without the old man jenkins thingamajig. You either just stand still not going anywhere, you go somewhere but you have to cling to the wall, or you start going somewhere but you end up falling because your brain doesn't let you actually balance.
But hey, at least it's better than ICE skating!
Well, I'm gonna go get some food and then probably take a nap. Us cats DO tend to sleep a lot.
Oh! and before I go, have some Jack to keep you guys busy while I go do other stuff.
What does a Nintendo Wii have in common with a 1995 Mac and a 2021 Mac?
a. Its processors
b. Its storage
c. Its disc drive
d. Its power supply
If you get it right, you get $1000 (not real sadly)
(sadly these aren't as high quality as they can be, because GBAtemp can't handle my style. I'll put these up on gdrive or something because I don't feel like making another webpage for this)
That's what the skin looks like.
Seems like some dumb unmovable-yet-collectable INaction figure, right?
Well, you're only half right. It's actually got THREE RGB LEDS inside! Two for the arms, one for the head.
Plus, when you plug it into an Ozobot Evo (to power the lights, of course) it'll get new voice clips of iron man, PLUS it (used to) unlocks stuff in the app.
See?
Now, here's the fun part.. Here's the thing completely disassembled! (Mostly, anyway.)
And let's get a closer look at that board, shall we?
It's made by Jetta, which isn't that surprising to me, honestly.
They've made boards for not just Evollve/Ozobot, but also Wonder Workshop!
All of these boards are the guts of Dot, a robot by Wonder Workshop. And these boards are ALL made by Jetta..
Hell, on Jetta's website they even list Sphero as one of the companies they've worked for.. (Though I don't remember seeing Jetta's logo on any Sphero boards that I'VE seen myself)
Funny how they've worked for the 3 big guys in the home/school robotics industry, unless you count Lego.
Anyway, back to iron man.
Here's a look at the underside of the board.
Seems like internally the skins are kown as "ozobot2.0_skin", which makes sense because Evo itself is internally known as "ozobot_2.0", though not to be confused with the Ozobot Bit 2.0, which was the robot they made BEFORE Evo.
Now, let's look closer at that chip on the board.
Seems like they pulled a Commodore with this one!
Now, what do I mean by that?
Well, that chip is an STM8S003 K3T6C 9914V VG MYS 639, my friend!
Now, what in the sam hell is that, you ask? Well, pretty much a microcontroller in my opinion!
It's got 1 KB ram, 8 KB memory, and an 8-bit CPU (I think??)
For more info about that thang, check out the datasheet I found!
https://www.st.com/resource/en/datasheet/stm8s003f3.pdf
It's just that it kinda reminded me of how Commodore put 6502's in their disk drives so that you wouldn't need a controller for them.
In addition to that, there's also those unused(?) contacts next to the chip!
They're named "P2", which might not seem all that interesting until you realize that the contacts that the Micro USB cable is connected to are named "P1"!
I'm guessing P2 is for reading/writing the little memory there is on that chip, so that Evo will know which skin is connected (Since they DID make 5 after all) and know which sound files to use (I'm near certain that the sounds are stored on Evo, instead of in the skin- 8 KB ain't enough, man!!)
Well, that's pretty much it. Here's the bare board plugged into my white Evo: (aka Sky)
And some instructions on getting the board out:
Just (carefully, mind you) pry off this back part (outlined in green) until you can pull it out.
Then it oughta look a bit like this, but with the board inside of course. Just pull it out, and presto!
Well, cya next blog post!
OH! I also went skating for the first time recently. (Yesterday by the time you're reading this I think)
It was fun that I could go fast, but I had to use one of those things you hold onto so you don't need to balance much. I'm not sure what they're called standardly but I'd describe it as like one of those walker things old people use but on wheels. And made of PVC pipe.
I wish it was weighed down more because it is REALLY easy to accidentally lift it up when you start going fast enough. And when THAT happens, you start to fall over. And when THATTT happens, you instinctively put your hands out so that you don't hurt yourself, but instead you end up hurting your left hand a bunch and yet you still get up anyway.
That, but also it's hard to get actual momentum in skates, ESPECIALLY when you stand up without the old man jenkins thingamajig. You either just stand still not going anywhere, you go somewhere but you have to cling to the wall, or you start going somewhere but you end up falling because your brain doesn't let you actually balance.
But hey, at least it's better than ICE skating!
Well, I'm gonna go get some food and then probably take a nap. Us cats DO tend to sleep a lot.
Oh! and before I go, have some Jack to keep you guys busy while I go do other stuff.
What does a Nintendo Wii have in common with a 1995 Mac and a 2021 Mac?
a. Its processors
b. Its storage
c. Its disc drive
d. Its power supply
If you get it right, you get $1000 (not real sadly)
