After examining the Robot, making sure batteries are connected correctly and fuses do not appear to be blown, turn on your Hero by flipping the big toggle switch located at the rear bottom of the robot. He should come up immediately and say "READY" (if you have the speech option). If the batteries are very low, the speech my be garbled. The LED display should show your currently installed main ROM version.: [1.0, 1.U, or 1.3]
After about 15 seconds a dash will appear and move back and forth.  Now you have your Hero 1 Robot operational and you need to test to see if everything is working properly. 

Here are a few tests that you can enter on the keypad:

DISPLAY TEST 
AE 0123 C 45 E 6789 C AB E CDEF
As you input the program, watch the display, and verify the response, if parts of a letter are missing it may indicate that a segment is bad on one of the LED displays.

SOUND
AA 0220 42 20 FE RESET AD 0220
The result will be led's lighting up on the sense board. This is displayed as a binary count and not a linear gauge.

LIGHT
AA 0225 41 20 FE RESET AD 0225
Observe the LED's on the Sense board, they should increase as the light source brightens.

MOTION
AA 0230 4B 20 FE RESET AD 0230
Move your hand in front of the sensor, you should see an LED light under the experimenter board.

SONAR
AA 0205 45 83 96 11 BD F6 4E BD F7 AD CE 20 00 09 26 FD 20 F0 RESET AD 0205
Place your hand in front of the sonar tubes and move away and closer. The numbers should change linearly according to how far or close you are. Note the numbers are displayed in HEX and not decimal.

SPEECH
AA 0200 72 FA 4B 20FE RESET AD 0200
Hero should speak the phrase 'READY'

Some Programs to get you going. 

To use, load the programs through the serial interface, then type AD XXXX where XXXX is the starting address specified in the description. (right click on the link and save)

Poet - (AD 0243) - Micromations Poet program.  Hero will recite hiaku and then compliment himself and or roll around. 

Jingle Bells - (AD 0200)

Hero Seeks a Friend - (AD 0200) Hero will roll around and seek out a friend

Mary Had a Little Lamb - (AD 0200)

America the Beautiful - (AD 0200)

Daisy - (AD 0200)

Demo A - (AD 0080) runs Hero through his paces

Little Miss Muffet - (AD 0200)