Hero Robot Manuals & Books

Complete listing of Hero 1 Manuals and Books (as far as I know). These are
all manuals that I have. If you know of any additional manuals please email


Hero 1 Main Manuals:

Assembly Manual 595-2870-02 1982 233 pages
Illustration Booklet part of 595-2870-02 1982 60 pages
16 Pages of changes to Assembly and Technical Manuals

User’s Guide (Manual) 595-2871-01 same as 595-3070 1982 48 pages
4 Pages of changes to 595-2871-01
Illustration Booklet part of 595-2871 1982 3 pages

Technical Manual 595-2872-01 1983 121 pages
9 Pages of changes to 595-2872-01

 

User's Guide 595-3070 same as 595-2871-01 says User's Manual inside 1983 48 pages
User's Guide 595-2871-01 1982 48 pages
User's Guide 595-3070-01 1983 48 pages
-These 3 manuals appear identical in spite of the different part numbers.
 

Schematics
Part 1 of 4 Poster (Sense,Sonar,TeachingPendant) part of 595-2872-01 (1 marked 595-2870) 1983
Part 2 of 4 Poster (ArmDrive,CPU,Charger) part of 595-2872-01 (1 marked 595-3071-03) 1983
Part 3 of 4 Poster (I/O,MainDrive,PowerSupply) part of 595-2872-01 1983
Part 4 of 4 Poster (Display,Motion) part of 595-2872-01 (1 marked 595-2870) 1983
Block / Interconnect Diagram part of 595-2872-01 1983

 

Option Manuals:

ET-18-1 Arm Manual -  Arm Accessory Manual 595-2886-04 1982 65 pages
Illustration Booklet Arm Parts Pictorial part of 595-2886-04 & -07 1982 16 pages
4 Pages of changes to 595-2886-00 591-4055
3 Pages of changes to 595-2886-04 591-4265
 

ET-18-2 Speech Accessory Manual  with schematic - says Voice Manual on cover 595-2887 1982 13 pages
Illustration Booklet Parts Pictorial /w Speech Board schematic part of 595-2887-01 1982 3 pages

Voice Dictionary 597-2952 1983 84 pages

 

ET-18-3 Remote Operation Manual  Remote Control Accessory 595-3162 1984 42 pages
-2 Pages of changes to 595-3162 (591-4589)
-2 Pages of changes to 595-3162 (591-4502)
ET-18-3 Remote Control Accessory (assembly) – 41 Pages

ET-18-3 Illustration Booklet  part of 595-3162 1984 10 pages
1 Page of changes to Illustration Booklet 595-3162 (591-4582) part of 595-3162 (591-4582)

 

ET-18-4 Utility ROM Accessory 595-3076 1983 16 pages


ET-18-6 Memory Expansion  595-3133 1984 17 pages
ET-18-6 illustration Booklet  part of 595-3133 1984 4 pages


ET-18-7 Automatic Mode ROM 597-3488-01 1984 3 pages

 

ETW-18-10 Serial Interface  - 595-3188-01 1984 8 pages
Illustration Booklet part of 595-3188-01 1984 2 pages

BASIC 595-3268 14 pages

Service Manuals:

ET/ETW-18 Service Data Manual – 365 Pages (The Blue Book)
ET-18 ROM Source Listing ET-18-5 595-3086 19?? About 200 pages?


Books:

Hero 1: Advanced Programming and Interfacing – Mark Robillard - 234Pages
Advanced Robot Systems – Mark Robillard – 215 Pages
Microprocessor Based Robotics – Mark Robillard – 220 Pages

NRI Books:

*Note* NRI (National Radio Institute) was a McGraw-Hill company that sold
the Hero 1 with a complete school course it is Made up of 2 Binders with 10
Chapters and 20 other bound books. Some are just electronic books and some
specific Hero or Robot books. These are the Highlights:

Hero 1 Main Course – About 400 Pages (2 Binders)
Robotics & Industrial Control RH701-02-03 – About 150 Pages
Robotics & Industrial Control RH704-05 – About 75 Pages
Robotics & Industrial Control RH706-07 – About 75 Pages


EB-1801 & EB-1801-40 Robotics and Industrial Electronics, Book 1,2 & Student Workbook 595-3009
& 595-3010 1983

Robot Applications: Robotics and Industrial Electronics 595-3195 by
Karl Wojcikiewicz & Ron Johnson 1984 EB-1812

Hero 1 : Advanced Programming Experiments 595-3217 by Howard Boyet -
revised by Ron Johnson 1984 EB-1802

Heath's Robot "Hero" 69 Experiments: Fundamentals and Applications by
Howard Boyet 1983 163 pages published by Microprocessor Training Inc.

On comparing the 2 books above by Howard Boyet they are very similar. The
code samples are the same and the text of one seems to paraphrase the
other.

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Fred Ennenga
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