Disassembling the Root Coding Robot

The first step in our disassembly is to remove the four bottom Phillips screws.

Once the screws are removed, simply flip the robot face up and lift the top cover. This will expose the Root's motherboard.

Remove the three screws holding the motherboard in place.

With a spudger, remove the four cables connected to the motherboard. This will allow us to lift it but there's still a couple of connectors to disconnect.

Now you can see both connectors still attached to the motherboard, remove them and simply set the motherboard aside.

With the motherboard out of the way, we can simply lift the side buttons and remove them.

Without the side buttons we can now easily access the three Phillips screws holding down the motors.

Unscrew them and remove the motors.

To access the battery, unscrew the 6 Phillips screws and remove the plastic piece.

With motors removed you can now see thge powerful magnets that hold this robot fixed on a whiteboard.

With access to the battery, you can simply take it out.

There's a little cable holder that makes sure the motor cables don't go everywhere, make sure to remove the cables from there.

The cool thing about the Root robot is that it can go on a white board and it can erase stuff. That mechanism is shown here and it can be remove by unscrewing these four screws.

Once that's done, remove the erasing mechanism.

To recognize colors, the Root uses a color sensor board at the bottom of the robot. Unscrew the five screws holding the board to the chassis.

Remove the board.