VTech PC Mouse

[kick52]

The PC Mouse, made in '98. It looks fairly bendable.



Shame there is no easy way to access the giant blob chip (I HATE THESE CHIPS!)
The blob chip seems to be the main voice synth/sound/visual thing, the big rectangular chip at the left seems to store the activities, and the smaller rectangle chip is the data storing chip, handling speech and music.

I have found that you can 'pause' it by connecting two resistors together, holding sound, though the video loop still plays. The data chip is quite nice, you can get some cool voice distortion/glitches together when bends are used with speech, and with music it will change it, sometimes inducing some insanely cool sounds, sometimes playing odd bass notes (sounds like star wars)

The bigger rectangle chip looks like the only chance of inducing a real glitch (making it do random stuff, not just distorting the sound), though it always crashes whenever I probe it at all.. still looking though.
I'll try a power pot in a minute.

The data chip:
You can see the 'temp freeze' points to the left. The two middle resistors.