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And saddest of all, I tried the same thing foone did, knowing that the unused binary codes (maybe not 0000 but surely the other five) were surely hiding a few extra songs. Today mainstream computing is still about digital/clean/closed but one day I assume the analog/noisy/chaotic will become a thing in a normal curriculum.
You're not going to die or feel any ill effects from a brief exposure to the phthalates and dioxins released by vinyl, but those phthalates and dioxins both hit the liver very hard while dioxins are carcinogens even in trace amounts.The tot phase is pretty fast, so parents don't really seem to get a feel for what is a "good" baby toy in time. The usual approach seems to be to cut vital features, shrink everything 10-30% (it's sometimes hard to tell if you don't have the original to compare it to, but it's really obvious when you do), and make all the plastic paper thin. This toy is a good analog for a real record player and with grooves that move a needle and play sound encoded on the disk. It was actually a lot of fun to make extra songs for it, the toy becomes interactive for the player.
The original one required you to crank it up to spin the disc, because spinning the disc was vital to the operation of the original music box. I aim to fix that by publishing each repair I carry out in the hope that others will be inspired to repair their things and keep them for longer. I’m sure there’s a company they could have sourced the music box mechanism from, if they couldn’t make it themselves any more. Reading Noah’s comment I wonder if the comb from the original version would fit, and if it would sound any better than the comb he used.Our two (now three) year old daughter can now play with the record player as her mum did – very cute. Like foone, I also got a kick out of playing with the switches and seeing what happened when you held the disc stil, but I was never curious enough to open it up.
What deeper understanding of how things work are within the grasp of a child that cannot yet use a screwdriver, wire cutters, and a volt meter? Once the winding was rendered unnecessary, you get the current version without that imitation and it loses the tactile component.For this reason, we use cookies and third-party services to improve the services we offer, display relevant advertisments and receive usage statistics. I absolutely loved the quiet weekends as a kid where I could spend hours and hours making ridiculous contraptions by mixing toys and a bit of tape and such. We bought our first kid a rolling walker/phone thing with some other features—yeah, electronic crap, but at least this one had a volume setting, unlike many modern ones that are just fixed to "deafen your child" with no other options unless you break out a soldering iron. If you're an avid collector whose peepee hurts after watching this video, understand that my peepee hurts a whole lot more.
You'd probably have a hard time finding a factory that could mass produce the old toy because that's just not how toys are made today. With a turntable and a needle that replicates a vintage record player, this retro toy grows with your child as they develop. Each disc no longer has "bumps" for notes, but instead simply has a combination of four continuous ridges.It is not possible for us to draw any conclusions about you, and any data collected as a result will never be passed on to third parties. So they probably took the original, figured out how it worked, replaced the audio generation with speakers and the microcontroller and changed the read head.
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