Small Discovery I Made Today

[transtarlexington]

Earlier today, I was starting off a repair on a Playskool Teddy Ruxpin. I removed the back and found that it had a far different motherboard than I had ever seen inside of one before. This means that there's one more version of the Playskool Teddy Ruxpin that nobody has ever noted before. drive.google.com/file/d/1GJBkzg7VEHdTdemW7Fe1qQkmj_rifV5K/view?usp=drivesdk

[lachlant1984]

Hi, would you please post more pictures of other versions of the boards so we can see the differences? Thanks.

[transtarlexington]

Late W.O.W. and first Playskool motherboard- drive.google.com/file/d/1Gcb7QKgrFOkq7vX2R9HkHbPW1VloiOJ2/view?usp=drivesdk .

2nd version Playskool motherboard- drive.google.com/file/d/1GJBkzg7VEHdTdemW7Fe1qQkmj_rifV5K/view?usp=drivesdk

[lachlant1984]

I do see differences where the components are and I think the number of components differs too. I don't know anything about circuit board designs or schematic diagrams, but in general circuit board designers improve their designs over time, components get consolidated and sometimes the component count on a circuit board get reduced as designs improve. Also, cost cutting is a factor too.