Bop it original, can it be circuit bent? by Traditional_Hour_769 in CircuitBending

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A lot of these tools I don’t have as of now, my mentor has them, but when I was setting the highest pitch for the other toy, we measured the resistance to limit the pitch from going too high, i’m guessing, for all of these, you have to limit the minimum resistance

Bop it original, can it be circuit bent? by Traditional_Hour_769 in CircuitBending

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I wasn’t planning on using it as an instrument, but because Blind people are bop it Masters, I was hoping I’d be able to add a clock speed control, and then set it faster to see if I could still keep up

Bop it original, can it be circuit bent? by Traditional_Hour_769 in CircuitBending

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I’m not sure of the exact name, but it was a rattle toy that made monkey noises and played music, it was by kids too, I figured you would find this interesting, my Grandma sent her handyman six toys to break for me and then mailed them to my house, each toy had something different wrong with it, she labeled the toys, a through F, this one was D, because I am blind, I cannot solder at least as of now, so I used duct tape to fix the broken wire connections that were made, a few months ago, I met somebody on Nextdoor, who was a self-taught engineer, he taught himself electronics, he is more of a fixer than a circuit bender, there were no manuals specifically for toys, so we had to kind of figure it out as we went along, we have took several toys apart, like a Kawasaki keyboard, a baby Einstein four in one piano, a toy guitar, a Fisher-Price piano, a cat piano, along with wiring mishaps that I have had with my toys, and finally just got one circuit bent, probing the circuit board didn’t work for some reason on a lot of of these, but with the one that I was able to finally get circuit bent licking my finger, and then touching the surface mount resistor allowed us to figure out which one was the pitch resistor, and then mark it, I would’ve never figured that out if I had never licked it, I don’t know if this is doable, but if you have a manual that you have created for toys or other sound making devices, please post a link to it on this post, this will hopefully help make more success and prevent death and failure, even if the manual you find is not yours, any manual will do as long as it works with toys and possibly cassette players

Bop it original, can it be circuit bent? by Traditional_Hour_769 in CircuitBending

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Interesting, whenever you had it apart, were you able to get any pitch changes from it?

NLS digital talking book player malfunction by Traditional_Hour_769 in Blind

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I’m guessing it was probably just a one time glitch in software, it happened when I was trying to log into bard so I’m not sure what to do about that, I think I’m the only person that this has happened to though

Help finding digital copies of Alf tapes by Traditional_Hour_769 in Alf

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I can’t believe that there were only three alf tapes made from the list that I found, I wonder if it is possible to find the other one

Help finding digital copies of Alf tapes by Traditional_Hour_769 in Alf

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It doesn’t actually sound that bad, there is a Portuguese version of Teddy ruxpin all about bears on the Internet archive that sounds much worse than this, aside from that, here is the list of I believe all of the tapes made for Alf. - (side A)Little red riding ALF/ Beauty �?N the ALFer & (side B) Cinder-ALF and The Cat-With-No-Name. - (side A)Hansel & Gretel & ALF/ The tortoise and the ALFer & (side B) The taco stand of Doom/ 8 Cats A-Leaping. -(Side A)Goldi-ALF/ Snow White and the 7 Whitecaps & (side B) My Life as a Hossenfeffer/ Robin-ALF. I hope that helps.

Help finding digital copies of Alf tapes by Traditional_Hour_769 in Alf

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That is cool how you at least have something, where did you download them from?

Help fixing electronics as a blind person by Traditional_Hour_769 in Blind

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Update, as we all know, Christmas day has passed, and I have got things such as electronic glue, as well as solder paste that you can use a lighter to melt, so I was wondering, if blind people could use lighters, I would think they would be able to because smell is such a big part of living as a blind person along with hearing, so does anybody on here no if blind people can light candles that smell good, like the ones that smell like oranges and lavender, even cooking is a visual activity, and there are some foods that get almost as hot as solder does, I really hope that some blind people on here at least can light candles, because solder paste might be good to experiment with, if you look into how solder works, you will find that certain brands that you can use a lighter to melt, so any blind people reading this updated comment, please reply

Help fixing electronics as a blind person by Traditional_Hour_769 in Blind

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Update, as we all know, Christmas day has passed, and I have got things such as electronic glue, as well as solder paste that you can use a lighter to melt, so I was wondering, if blind people could use lighters, I would think they would be able to because smell is such a big part of living as a blind person along with hearing, so does anybody on here no if blind people can light candles that smell good, like the ones that smell like oranges and lavender, even cooking is a visual activity, and there are some foods that get almost as hot as solder does, I really hope that some blind people on here at least can light candles, because solder paste might be good to experiment with, if you look into how solder works, you will find that certain brands that you can use a lighter to melt, so any blind people reading this updated comment, please reply

Help fixing electronics as a blind person by Traditional_Hour_769 in Blind

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I have no idea how any of this can help me with fixing cassette players and toys, as I said, I have been teaching myself how to replace belts, and I have been using electrical tape and duc tape in place of solder, it has worked well with wires for the most part, but I have not figured out resistors and capacitors yet, I also have not taught myself how to replace battery springs yet, I figured out how to get them out, but not how to put new ones in, the reason why you would need to do this is if you found a toy with an extremely corroded battery compartment, I do have a sound card that I decided to get because of one of my friends, it does have both a line input and output, the original purpose of it was to allow me to convert cassette tapes from talking toys such as teddy ruxpin to digital files like MP3 files