Staples Easy Button hack prototype 1

I have not (yet) hacked the Keterex KX1440 IC on the Staples Easy Button, but its on the to-do list. When I saw posts where people hacked in a bulky voice recorder from Radio Shack or some such I decided to use the microscopic guts from a programmable Carlton Greeting card for now... You can buy those at Target for $5.99 btw, get "Sound with prompt" not "Sound with music".

For prototype #2, cutting the traces to the existing Keterex KX1440 and soldering in a programmed Keterex chip side-by-side will solve the audio degredation and momentary button press issue. I didn't feel like buying the $49 developers kit from Keterex yet. If you want to get really fancy and dissolve the epoxy with some N,N-dimethylformamide or 1-Methyl-2-pyrrolidinone you can probably use/reprogram the existing IC :-P

(I have to hold this one)

Assembled version - no case modification was required:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyZ_Rp2DNMI

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[masonicboomerang]

my buttons on youtube and facebook were not working but once I viewed this video they do, so thank you for fixing the hack !!