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A great little toy. I waited a long time to get into these, but I caught one on sale for $20, couldn't pass that up. It turns out the brick is a fancy little H8 processor, not much memory but it can run a few tasks and control 2 motors, 7 LEDs, a small speaker, some IR emitter/detectors, a front touch switch, and a visible light link (VLL) communication/programming port. It also includes a remote with 5 buttons that can remote control the bot directly or send command messages to it. The spybotics comes in 4 different flavors with different drive wheels but the electronics (programmable brick) are the same for each. They are a newer version of the RCX brick.
Picture of internals.
http://www.robotgroup.net/gray/traxx05.nqc by GrayMack - A program to simulate the old 'Traxx' toy. You queue up a set of commands then hit the bumper and it acts them out. See source code for details. It is written in the 'Not Quite C' programming language.
http://www.baumfamily.org/nqc/ - One of the best programming languages for writing spybotics programs created by Dave Baum.
http://news.lugnet.com/robotics/spybotics/ Lugnet is a good users group to post questions and exchange ideas.
http://www.eng.iastate.edu/twt/Courses/Undergrad/packet/appendix/advanced.htm Advanced programming with 'Not Quite C' - A quick guide to show some features.
http://spybotics.roboclub.ru/downloads/Spybotics%20ROM%20documentation.PDF Spybotics rom documentation pdf
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.research.co.jp%2FMindStorms%2Fspybotics%2Findex2.html&lp=ja_en&tt=url A great (translated) Japanese site. Has good photos of the circuit boards.
http://8ball.federated.com/ - A cool example of what can be done with a Spybotics, on request by the web page it turns a 'Magic 8 ball' to answer your question via a webcam. I have never seen this working but it gets your brain thinking about what you can do with it. Programs written by robot group members
Links
http://www.lego.com/eng/spybotics/default.asp?x=x - The official Lego Spybotics page
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