{"id":190,"date":"2019-09-12T15:14:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T05:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sighmon.com\/says\/?p=190"},"modified":"2020-08-08T13:14:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T03:44:44","slug":"repairing-hexa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sighmon.com\/says\/repairing-hexa\/","title":{"rendered":"Repairing Hexa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During my time at MOD.<\/a> I purchased a Vincross HEXA<\/a> as part of our robotics education program. It’s a beautiful six legged robot that can be controlled via a mobile phone app, or their MIND SDK<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward to a couple years down the track, and I’m now working for ACMI<\/a> on their renewal project, but still miss my old colleagues, museum and robots dearly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I heard that HEXA wasn’t charging anymore I jumped at the chance to debug them, and see if I could bring them back to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I suspect that the batteries and\/or charging circuit might be dead. We had it replaced under warranty once while I was at MOD., so it’s a likely repeat offender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tools<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My goto tool kit for computer\/phone\/robot repairs is my ifixit toolkit<\/a>. The tools needed for this repair so far are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n