Hardware Projects

I'm a computer programmer with a soldering iron: The most dangerous beast.

Terrible Keyboards

I like to take apart kid's toys which have keyboards on them and turn them into Real USB Keyboards.

Successfully Keyboardized:

• VTech Pull & Learn Alligator (twitter thread) See also videos in the follow up thread
• VTech Thomas & Friends Learn & Explore Laptop Teardown (twitter thread) See also the videos in the follow up thread.
• LeapFrog My Own Leaptop (twitter thread)
• Children Intelligent Learning Machine (twitter thread)
• VTech Princess Fantasy Notebook (twitter thread) Videos in the followup thread

Not Yet Keyboardized:

• CIDE toys Kidz Delight (twitter thread)
• VTech Alphabet Town (twitter thread)
• VTech Super Color Whiz (twitter thread)
• LeapFrog AlphaPup (twitter thread)
• VTech Little Apps Tablet (twitter thread). See also thread 2, with the second keyboard

Projects

• Floppyizer