RPi Robosapien V2

A robot that once was once topping the lineup of the WowWee robots (until the Robosapien RS Media arrived on scene), this large and neatly designed robot could be still used as a base for robotic projects – especially given the fact that design quality and the functionality of the Robosapien V2 surpasses the needs of an average robotic enthusiast.

Unfortunately, the manufacturing process of Robosapien V2 involved using the crappiest wiring ever found on Earth, so all the secondhand RS V2’s sold currently need a lot of soldering to be done before you get the robot restored to an original functionality of an advanced toy.

This is exactly most people give up and go with a full revamping of the internals.

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Apple Macintosh Classic

At some point in time I’ve been presented with the leftovers of the 1990-manufactured Macintosh Classic.

Even if it was not vandalized by some teenagers shortly prior to me getting my hands on this piece of IT heritage, a Motorola CPU was already a bit outdated by 2010s, so I had no hard feelings about gutting out the rest of the internals to save the outer shell for the later DIY project.

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