Pleos are cool. The skin on ours has deteriorated, but he still works. The battery pack is 6xAA NiMh, but later versions used a LiPo pack which was compatible but used a different charger. Ours likes dancing to music and eating his leaf. He also likes being stroked and tickled under the chin. When he goes to sleep it is usually because the battery pack is getting low.
I know this is a comment on an old post, but I saw the pleo on a shelf behind you on a recent video and was curious, so I searched for it. 🙂

I think that kid's juice box sat on the front porch too long and fermented a bit.

Oh, man. I could have used one of those Fluke network tools back when I was doing tech at my school. They didn't want to shell out for a proper tester, so all I had was the box with the 8 blinking lights to let me know if my Cat5e cable was intact.

Hahaha, when you powered up that dino it seemed like it realized that it was skinned and slowly dying.

Sega will put it in a game, lol. Bet he wont be getting asked back.

he  is cinda cute

i love all the television transmitters and modulators among other neat toys you have, have you ever considered trying to broadcast a video over analog signals to an old analog TV in your room/building just for kicks/fun?

maybe Pleo's touch sensors designed to work with its skin, not direct touch ?

P.S. signal port on the Simens invertor must be for remote control (on/off, speed setting, direction setting) as usual on other invertors. buttons on inverter itself used for initial settig of motor parameters.

Pleo cost 10 million dollars to develop?? I smell embezzlement.. 😉

kill it, kill it with fire before it lays eggs!!!

Cute teenager, I can barely remember being like that, a long time ago.  Love computers and tech, but actually in the medical field, which I like also, trauma, ICU.  Love your show.