I have a Chip. I am tempted to take it apart to see if it has a UART connector in it like WowWee's MiP. The Chip dog is really an interesting piece of tech. It comes with a wrist watch that you can set up so that the dog follows it. I have strapped it to our real dog's collar and she freaks because Chip follows her around! LOL

Can you take it apart and check. If it does, let me know. I know the woweee guys pretty well and can get the communication protocol like I did with th mip. But i won’t bother them if there is no uart.

You bet! I'll take photos.

Watching!

Okay, Below are a couple photos / diagrams of the board in CHiP's body. There is no UART port, however there are two possible inputs on this board. Take a look. I will take CHiP's head apart and post pictures of what is in there.

CHiP's Brain... It was a tough bugger to get out.

I find it interesting that the white circled solder pads on both boards are numbered sequentially starting with the head - P1 thru P4 and in the 2nd board in the dogs body - P5 thru P7.

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The Chip dog is really an interesting piece of tech. It comes with a wrist watch that you can set up so that the dog follows it.

I have been noodling around with ideas to make EZ-B do this reliably (ie, not following a glyph or color or shape. Some kind of beacon) for ever. Would love to know how they do this and see if it could be duplicated.

Alan

The wrist band has 4 very small IR LEDs on it that sends it the command signals to follow. The face of the wrist band/watch has 5 buttons on it. A middle circle button surrounded by 4 other buttons that enable you to send it specific commands. You are also able to take control of the dog by using the watch as a joystick.

The dog does have BT and WiFi and you can connect to it with an app that you download. The app enables you to control the dog better than the wrist band/watch. It is also more responsive.

This is actually the first commercially robot that I purchased that leverages IR, BT and WiFi.