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		ginko on Oct 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Taking apart the 2010 Fisher Price re-released Mus... I wonder if this was originally planned to be more like the original with songs mechanically encoded in the disks but they either found the cheap microswitches in the tone arm to not have the right reaction speed or they realized developing the sound generation for the IC took too long/needed a more powerful+expensive micro controller so they went with this instead.

IAmGraydon on Oct 31, 2021 [–]

Not sure what you mean. The original had no electronic parts. It was basically a hand-wound music box with interchangeable discs.

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