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First Project - VTech Little Talking Scholar
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stickembugg



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 4:35 pm    Post subject: First Project - VTech Little Talking Scholar Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

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First project! Gotta start basic or I'll give up way to quick. I bought this little guy at the thrift store for 2 bucks, figured I'd give this circuit bendery a gander. After messing with the circuit for a couple hours, I gave up out of dissatisfaction with sounds I got. I got some good seemingly aleatronic tones, and some random piecings of various phrases, and even some streams of chip confusion, but none of them were reproducable. Today, I did a search and saw on sailormouth (a CB blog) that someone has bent this toy before.

Anybody got some ideas of what I could do with this? Even if it's one bend with some bypass switches and and 1/4" output, I want to make a project of this. I just need to get my brain thinking and figured maybe you had tips or suggestions.

I look forward to posting more on this boards, mostly just in the circuit bending forum.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 1:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Have you tried a battery starve pot yet?
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stickembugg



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

I don't even know what a battery starve pot is, just what a pot is. I guess I'll try to research it.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 5:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

For future reference, you can read about battery starve pots here:

http://www.beavisaudio.com/projects/DBS/

You can place a pot inline with the + voltage to also starve the circuit.
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