On 19 Jun 2021 at 11:39a, paulie420 pondered and said...

I feel the same way about getting a Speak N Spell that works... I hav one (from my childhood) but the power supply I think failed on the bo and I have no way of knowing how to repair it... not really the skill to do so. :(

Theres a lot of info out there about repairing (and even bending/modifying) the speak n spell... sure you'd need to break out the sauder iron, but I bet one could learn that machine fairly easy. Heck, with Youtube, you can just follow along almost. :P
If I owned one I'd have to crack it open and try to get her talking
again. :P

I have not found much info to solve this problem. It does not help that I am not overly confident in dealing with circuit diagrams etc. But what I have found was a badly scanned copy of the circuit for the board but little else. Lots about how to mod the board for circuit bending etc. but not much about
how to solve the problem of no power lighting up the device :(

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I have not found much info to solve this problem. It does not help that
I am not overly confident in dealing with circuit diagrams etc. But what
I have found was a badly scanned copy of the circuit for the board but little else. Lots about how to mod the board for circuit bending etc.
but not much about how to solve the problem of no power lighting up the device :(

iFixIt kinda sets one on the right path... :P If your issue is one they cover. But even if not, I've seen tons of repair guides - AND circuit bending walk throughs on Youtube... (circuit bending is when you make the speak n spell ROCK n ROLL!!!)

https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Speak_And_Spell



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ET phone home?


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On 20 Jun 2021 at 12:27a, paulie420 pondered and said...

iFixIt kinda sets one on the right path... :P If your issue is one they cover. But even if not, I've seen tons of repair guides - AND circuit bending walk throughs on Youtube... (circuit bending is when you make
the speak n spell ROCK n ROLL!!!)

https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Speak_And_Spell

Thank you for the link. There's some info on the site but again it seems to
be the same stuff I've found so far. Getting it fixed is a 'nice to have' for me but at the moment not very close to the top of my to-do list :) Still I
can day dream about it :)

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