When the CHIP comes brand-new, it doesn’t have an operating system installed in it. Hence the CHIP must be flashed before using.

• Flash “Desktop with DIP Support” (Kernel 4.4) onto the CHIP.
• Visit http://flash.getchip.com/ for more details.

We first need to modify the USB cable to supply 5V to the breadboard.

• Cut one of the USB cables in half. This will expose either 2 or 4 wires of different colors. If there are 4 wires, we will only use the red and black wires. The red is positive and the other wire will be negative.
• Strip the positive and negative wires.

In the picture above, I added a male crimp end for a better connection

• We’re ready to set up the boost converter! Connect the converter on the breadboard so that “IN+” and “OUT+” connect to the power pins,  “IN-” and “OUT-” connect to the ground pins.
• Connect the modified USB cable, power cable (stripped) and the boost converter as shown below (positive matches with (+), negative matches with (-):

• Connect the USB to a powered USB hub. Use the multimeter to check if the voltage between the inside and outside of the power head is 12v. You can tune the output voltage by turning the adjusting screw.

Now start connecting cables with the CHIP, powered USB hubs/Laptop and breadboard:

This is an important step to show you how to setup the CHIP completely so that it can run the Romibo Program. We’ll need the following:

• Set-up CHIP Workspace
• Multi-port USB hub
• Mouse
• Keyboard

Step 1: 

Connect all the peripherals together with the CHIP via the USB port. You should be able to move the mouse and type.

Step 2: 

Click on the symbol at the top right of the desktop to connect to the internet.

Step 3: 

Right click on the desktop and click “Open Terminal here”. To increase text size, right-click on the terminal window and choose preferences.

Step 4: 

Type the following:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git-all

When prompted, the default CHIP password is “chip”. This should take a while.

Step 5: 

Type the following:

cd
sudo git clone https://github.com/OrigamiRobotics/open

What this command does is to upload all the documents from github to the CHIP. (All the documents of Romibo Program has been uploaded on github)

Step 6: 

Type the following:

cd /home/chip/Romibo-V8/Bash_files
sudo bash romibo.sh

This will install all the prerequisite programs for Romibo’s eyes, movement, speech, etc..

One of the checks to see if the installation process has succeeded is to see if “romibo” appears as a wi-fi network using any device.

When you are done, restarting the CHIP should result in an animation of romibo’s eyes appearing upon startup (may need to wait a while after desktop loads).