Since my times at the high school I was fascinated by the WowWee toys as their dedication to creating extremely well-designed robotic toys was matched only by the swiftness of dropping the support for this toys, making them almost useless.
The indisputable gem of their lineup was the WowWee robotics Robosapien RS Media – a 55 cm tall walking robot with embedded Linux, not to mention other features inherited from its predecessor, the Robosapien V2.
Even nowadays, with no support and a hard to find software, I feel no regrets using this magnificent piece of machinery as a mobile robot, rigged with a RPi Zero co-pilot unit and converted to LiPo batteries for ease of Maintenance.
Even though the hack wasn’t as invasive as the one performed with the other biped I have – the RS V1 – the robot still has a lot of functionality, and is retaining all the features of the original RS media, as RPI in this case is used more as a co-pilot computer and the original firmware was kept intact, as well as the hardware (well, here I had to apply some minor modifications).