Circuit-Bent Speak and Spell

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Uploaded by on Mar 17, 2007

I circuit-bent a Speak and Spell, and this video consists of me and my roommate playing it.

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  • enough ethernet ports?

  • I ended up taking out some of the unused line cards because they draw about 30 Watts a piece :).

  • I'd really like a speak and spell to bend.. So expensive though if you go the eBay route.

  • Really? eBay is where I got this one and I don't think I paid more than $20. That was a few years ago, though.

  • can you type a word and have it say them?

  • Nope, this thing could only say words that were preprogrammed in its ROM. The Speak and Spell came out in 1978 and it would have either been impossible or impossibly expensive (for a toy) to have the kind of computing power needed for arbitrary text-to-speech synthesis.

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  • Rig it to say fowl language!! LOL!!!

  • isn't that like enough to power the continent of Asia?

  • lawl.

    what about the spanish ñ?

    Norweigian ø?

  • Gay it...lol

  • On eBay UK a good condition boxed etc goes for $40ish :(

  • I had one and I remember that too. It always happened when the battery was about to die. Pretty much had the same effect as these switches I guess.

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