Hacking the Attacknid
The hexapod is the clever design work of Jaimie Mantzel, a somewhat eccentric Canadian inventor. In fact, the Attacknid is really a miniature version of the Giant Robot Mantzel recently finished building. What makes Mantzel’s design impressive is that despite its six legs, only two DC motors control its movement — compare that with the 12 servo motors minimum you’d find in any other six-legged walker. - Arduino project: Hacking the Attacknid
Arduino project: Hacking the Attacknid
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raspberrypi The PCB actually has 10x empty spots next to the switch contacts that seem to have been purposely included for this very purpose/testing/development.
First things first though - I will drill some holes and mount 12 GPIO pins on the handset to break it out to connect via wires to the corresponding spots on the PCB.
8 will go to the 8 buttons. 2 will go to the 2 (apparently) ground lines that the 2 clusters of 4 buttons short to. the other 2 will go to the +3v / gnd supply lines in the battery compartment.
The controller has something that resembles a NRF24L01 RF transceiver in it.