Robosapien Alarm Clock

I dusted off another long forgotten project, my Robosapien Alarm Clock. The main work for this project was carried out in 2005 and involved cutting a hole in my Robosapien's chest plate and mounting an LCD and two PIC microcontrollers (16F84A's) on some perf-board in the space between his chest plate and his rib cage.

One PIC micro handles the LCD and the clock routines. The second PIC handles the communications between IR receiver (in Robosapien's head) and Robosapien's brain (in his back), stealing any button presses on the remote after the sonic button is pressed and passing them to the first PIC micro for setting the clock and alarm. When the alarm goes off it sends a command to the Robosapien to perform an action. Recently added the ability to burp on the hour every hour.

The PIC microcontrollers are programmed in JAL, with the clock code being adapted from Thomas Langewouters' "wekker.jal" alarm clock. I wrote a library to allow communications between the two PICs and there is still some space left on one of the PICs to expand the program (the other PIC is right on the 1024 limit).