Gigamesh... the opaque cover was just too tempting! Of course, this site is still "under construction"... Click here for the remote control guts.
Shot of the front end with a closeup of the built in touch sensor. The "return spring" is made of a conductive rubber (just like in the regular touch sensors):
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Yes, I know this picture of the data connection port is blurry:
It's a little difficult to see the part number on the device that appears to be a transistor... More importantly, notice the chip underneath the capacitor in all that hot-glue! Also, there's another chip in the midst of all the LED's:
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Here's a couple glances to give an overall visual reference of the guts:
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Obviously, this next batch of pictures are not to scale with one another:
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Opening the brick was pretty easy, but digging the board out to see the bottom side required unsoldering a connection to a battery clip (circled in white):
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There is a battery wire that connects to the board, but it is long enough that it didn't disconnect it:
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Pictures of the board bottom:
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And, of course, for the gearheads:
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Stay tuned...