toy two.
| I still don’t have a soldering iron yet. Thinking of buying a soldering station, but the price makes me think again. I kept thinking I might be able to get something cheaper in Indonesia. I am thinking and thinking. And not only about soldering irons. I also thought about toy 2. |
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| So I opened toy 2 to see how it works. |
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| Toy 2 has more cables than toy 1, as I have suspected from the more complex function it does. |
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| The button contacts, however, are different from the rubber ones that toy 1 houses. They’re made of metal strips. |
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Looking at it a bit closer, I was intrigued. How does this work? Each of the single buttons could actually trigger a sound – why a somewhat interconnected web of metal strips inside?
So I thought I should look at the cabling to see what the metal strips do. |
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| This white cable goes from the button at this end, which is the frog button … |
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| … straight through to the other end of the PCB … |
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… to the button at the other end of the toy. That’s a green wheel button.
The frog button is green as well! Did I miss anything here? Both buttons are green. Would a 3 year old notice that right away? Does this fact imply a function I didn’t notice in the toy? A secret feature of some sort, available only for those intelligent enough (as a 3 year old) to see the visual connection? My suspicion was proven wrong. There is no connection whatsoever between the two green buttons, or between them and something else that’s green, namely the PCB. But why does that white cable go from one end to the other end? |
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