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PCB Scan - Toy Hacking! Baby Einstein Take Along Tunes Musical Toy

We're continuing on our quest to replace the brains of the Baby Einstein Take-a-Long Tunes toy with something that can play Autechre or Bjork. Since the last video, Mr Ladyada has scanned in the PCB so that we can start to trace the outlines. We used simple computer image editing software to delete the background, rotate it so its straight, and convert it to monochrome. After importing, we traced out the slots and holes so that our new PCB will be able to fit right in place. Now its time to spec some parts! Our big decision is what chipset to go with: we can't get SAMD21 or SAMD51's anymore…

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