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Pleo on Reuters

Gallamine — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:35:06 +0000

Reuters features a video of Pleo taken at CeBIT:

HowStuffWorks Tells How Pleo Works

Gallamine — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:21:48 +0000

HowStuffWorks.com has a great article on “How Pleo Works.” The article gathers information from publicly available information and from exclusive interviews with the designers of Pleo. The article discusses Pleo’s sensors, behavior and movement, his processors, and his motors.

They also have a good discussion and neat applet that lets you see how (and play with) Pleo’s tail works.

Great read!

Pleo Hacking Videos from Pleo Dreams

Gallamine — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:31:25 +0000

Pleo Dreams.com has been busy taking apart their Pleo and taking videos of his guts! Check out his Brain Surgery and Thoractomy videos. Brain surgery after the jump.

iFixit.com Completely Disassembles Pleo

Gallamine — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:02:55 +0000

ifixit.com has completely disassembled their Pleo and posted pictures of how they did it. It’s pretty amazing the amount of stuff that’s inside of Pleo. I doubt that their Pleo will work again. Sacrificing Pleo for the sake of science.

Poll Results – Pleo For Christmas?

Gallamine — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:23:24 +0000

Poll results for December:

Are you going to purchase a Pleo in time for Christmas?

* Yes, for me!: 45% (21)
* Yes, for someone else: 21% (10)
* No, I’ll wait: 13% (6)
* No, too poor: 15% (7)
* Not sure: 6% (3)

There is also a new poll up. Happy voting!

Big News Tomorrow!

Gallamine — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:21:21 +0000

Big news from UGOBE tomorrow. Stay tuned!

Pleo has a “blood sugar” level?

Gallamine — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:22:54 +0000

Mike at Pleo Dreams has found a list of what looks like Pleo’s internal variables. I’ll include them after the jump. Interestingly though, one of them is “blood_sugar”. There are plenty of other interesting ones like, “picked_up”, “sound_direction”, “shake_present”, and “tilt_direction”.

I’m really excited about the though of all these variables being available in the upcoming SDK.

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fatigue_time
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last_input_time
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birth_stage
ir_comm
edge_detect_offset
p2p_sync_type
p2p_event_type
p2p_num_peers
p2p_sync_counter
p2p_master
volume_idx
sensor_event
motion_speed_prev
motion_speed_timeout
exp_gain
exp_min
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hun_gain
hun_min
hun_max
soc_gain
soc_min
soc_max
fat_gain
fat_min
fat_max
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turn_angle
high_temperature
shake_to_wake
handle_light_event
do_nothing
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walk_speed_mod
rest_timeout
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Merry Christmas from Pleo

Gallamine — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:22:00 +0000

Via fescue’s Flickr photoset.

Pleo’s Debug Port

Gallamine — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:34:53 +0000

Blogger Mike, at Pleo’s Dreams blog, discovered Pleo’s debug port.

The port is under a glued-on piece of plastic next to Pleo’s power switch.

Hacking Pleo’s Battery

Gallamine — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:24:23 +0000

There’s a post on the PleoWorld forums about hacking Pleo’s battery.
The battery pack is a 7.2v pack made up of 6 2200mAh NiMH cells. NiMH’s have a nominal voltage of 1.2v each. The battery pack has three terminals – plus, minus and a thermistor to measure the temperature of the cells. One poster, “pleohacker” points out that since Pleo is running many motors and it’s electrical circuitry off the same pack, the cells need very low internal resistance in order to prevent the processors from shutting down (using a brownout circuit) when the cells voltage drops.

The thermistor may also be used to “nap” Pleo when the battery pack gets too hot. Any adventurous hackers out there have any comments?