Mods

There were several kits available to enhance Hero's capabilities. We will list the ones that were commercially available, And ones submitted by other Hero owners. If you have a MOD you would like to share please drop us an email at HERO-1

There were also aftermarket upgrades sold by the following companies. This is all the information I have. If you know anything more about these or have pictures you would like to share with everyone please email us at: hotwing@hero-1.com

Tired of struggling with your panels, here is a little mod to help!

Robotronix

ANDROTEXT is a language to make communicating with robots easy for everyone. It is a high-level language, which means two things: (1) it is human oriented and can be understood with little technical knowledge; and (2) the same program will work on many different types of robots with minimal modification

MICROMATION: Catalog (although, they no longer exist)

MEMCOM

Memory Expansion

Voice Recognition

Dynacorp

Made a motherboard that provides the robot with 5 slots for
interfacing circuits. Besides being able to use for your own circuit
designs, the following circuits were available for use with the
motherboard
-32 k memory expansion - holds 6116, 6264, 2716, or 2732 memory chips.
-Serial I/O - has handshaking, EPROM software, '
-Perfboard Wire Wrap Set (2 included)

Dayco

-Parallel I/O Kit - Has 16 memory-mapped inputs or outputs for
Hero. It contains programmable I/O for 8 or 16 lines. Full interrupt
handling and contains 4 interrupt lines. Fully documented.

Magicland - Tom Fox

-SUPERFOX2 - a versatile A/D board. Included easy-to-use
firmware and comes equipped with 2 temperature sensors that enables the
bot to measure temperatures from -40 F to +215 F. Celsius and Kelvin
scales are also supported by firmware. Superfox2 has 8 A/D channels (2
additional of which are used by temperature sensing circuits). There
are 8 additional LOGIC (yes/no) TTL inputs included. It comes with 2k
ROM 2K RAM and a socket for an additional "user" 4K ROM. Wires to Hero
in 5 minutes and is mounted inside the door out of the way. Most IC's
used are low power consuming CMOS. Compatible with most memory
expansion boards on the market.

Bersearch Still Available! Site
-ROBI is a HERO/APPLE Handshake package. Easy hookup, 8 screws
on Hero. 1 card slot on Apple II or IIe computer. User friendly
software for data transfers, stores and retrieves files to and from an
Apple disk.

Virtual Devices
Marketed a complete program development system and communication hardware, both RS232 hardwired and radio-link for Hero.

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