The most important components will be R2 and D2.

Nice teardown! Hope it's not irrecombobulably discombobulated.

I loved the Cyclon cells, you can still buy them, Hawker Energy now I think? I used to get lots of them from scheduled maintenance on DEC HSZ and HSG storage arrays, I never found a bad one and I used them for all sorts of things.

This will be a cool project!

I had one of these!! unfortunately it was lost to a move.

Utter carnage. HA HA.

In the redesign, what about giving him a voice. Votrax might be nice or digitize your voice for certain phrases. Or Some of the, "Lost In Space," robot expressions. Danger Will Robinson, Danger...Etc kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iK1gosaZ3ZeadJs.html

Boss, With some new xtals and simple tuning, you can put that thing on 6M and get away from the noise of 49mhz. Be well Mike

Interesting.