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Is there a way to connect the tape player of an omnibot to the EZ-B or battery holder?  It'd be awesome to have that retro piece of technology still operational amidst all the brand-spanking-new tech that's been retro-fitted into the body without having to hunt down (and figure out how to reconnect it to) one of those bulky battery packs it originally came with.  I found a nice schematic of the robot from its user manual...

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#1   — Edited
If you want it to actually work, it would need to be a stand alone system which you can simply apply power to. If you need to try and read the tape, play it through the ez-b and so on, probably not going to happen.

I would imagine a lipo could supply the needed current, just not sure on the voltage.
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#2  
Share the motor wires with the hbridge and cassette pcb. Simply don’t disconnect the existing motor wires and tap into them instead. 

That’ll leave both operational and have a toggle switch between their power. Because you wouldn’t want both on at the same time, as it’ll cause a short. One could be grounding the line while the other is outputting positive.
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My Alexa project uses a highly modified Omnibot 2000. The robot has all of its original functions including the tape deck.  The right arm still has the same remote functions. I modified left arm with servos connected to ezb. The drive base motors work as original . You can connect the motors to hbridge without disconnect anything internally. Use the auxiliary rca rear connectors to connect directly to the motors. There are 2 slides switches on panel to that. If you want to switch motor connection via ezb,you could use 2 relay boards in place of slide switches. The entire robot  uses (2) 6 volt sla batteries. One for the omnibot and one for ezb. You can see my project in my profile.
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