2008 has been crazy, during the year a lot has happened.

Early in January I left my 3 year long job for personal reasons, and began to focus on finding a new less stressful job.

I proposed to my fiancé on her birthday last year (Nov 20th), and we are planning our wedding, Jan 18th 2009.

My fiancé and I purchased a home in January, and have both have moved.

I started a new job that I really love, then they laid me off 5 months later.

My car was in a parking lot fender bender. Don't ask..

We have finished shooting, after post and rendering we will have the "Bonez and his Thorocotomy" video online. So while you wait here is a Peek

Since the previous two videos have proven to be so popular we have decided to make a series. Starting with this weekend's episode "Bonez and his Thorocotomy", we will shoot a weekly episode and detail each piece of the Pleo dinosaur. So far we have discovered 1 of Pleo's 6 processors. I have also heard rumblings of a replacement battery pack for Pleo that can make him run twice as long! Stay tuned for more updates.

So Pleo's cpu that runs the camera is a Phillips NXP LPC2103F

This CPU is a 32 Bit ARM CPU with 8k of RAM, 32k of flash, 10 bit ADC, 2 UARTS, 2 I2C busses, and SPI & SSP.

The pinout for the CPU

Now that I have the pinouts I can ohm out the J105 pins to the CPU and see what we get.

Here is the long awaited brain surgery video, enjoy!

As I type this we are shooting the Brain Surgery Video. Here is a sneek peek. Video to come soon!

Well you knew it would happen before too long. Pleo would be taken out of his
skin.
Pleo has 3 parts to his skin. The head piece, the torso peice, and the tail piece. If you look closely
on a Pleo you can see where these pieces have been glued together.

As we all know Pleo has a USB port. I have some utilities that let me see what is going on with USB. Here is a dump of Pleo's "Device Descriptor".