my sister has this keyboard, if you turn both hands on and press the number 4 during songs it actually does get pretty complex for someone who's not a pro, it also turns off all the cartoony stuff and turns the screen sideways making it look more like a music sheet, toobad you didn't play with it a little longer
TITLE: Destruction of the Fisher Price "I Can Play" keyboard ME: "Oh, maybe he's gonna do some circuit bending!" THE VIDEO: *literally cutting into the plastic with a handsaw*
DJ4x I was honestly expecting him to cut it open with a handsaw, as that’s exactly what I’d have done. Except I probably wouldn’t have been able to find a handsaw and would’ve gone at it with a breadknife or some other sharp, serrated thing that really wasn’t designed for that job and would make things infinitely harder for myself.
"dad what are you doing in there" [BACKPACK BACKPACK] "dad are you watching dora" "NO [THUD]" "dad im coming in" 8 bit guy was found with a broken toy keyboard on the floor with a dora cartridge in it
Wow. That is genuinely the first time I've ever seen anyone use the Somemong texture as their user icon. A year or two ago, that would've totally left me scratching my head because I didn't know that Terry wads are a thing in the DOOM modding community. I only recognized it because of all the crappy DOOM wad videos by Aquarius199 that I've watched over the last few months.
@@dumbmouse7256 thats basically what they did, be annoying and change the words in an effort to censor them, sometimes the old lyrics were censored for no apparent reason
Engitly ..nah destruction like on his mp3 boom box video was appropriate. I just hope he doesn't do that too often. I prefer the devices getting fixed instead of the breaking them like the hot knife, hydraulic press, or 'watch me smash my I-device' videos.
Well, you can charge the wrong people and raise false objections about 4 times without being suspended by the court, yet you can win a case and get legendary status. ;P
I can't play GH or RB on "Easy" because the missing notes throw me off way too much. Also, I wish I could turn off compliments in DDR, but leave the boos in. Boos are instant feedback, but the cheers are delayed, so it's always confusing what I'm being cheered for and it's almost meaningless.
I'm a musician and tech enthusiast myself. Typically with a keyboard that small, I'll just play chunk chords as far on the left as possible, and restructure the melodies. it's technically incorrect but it still sounds good.
Yeah i think the boomers are only halfway there. Like yeah people need effort and a reason to get better but you can provide that without being a butthole
Agree, that would have been a much better way to encourage learning while keeping being positive to avoid angry Karen mother sueing because your keyboard dare to told their 2yo toddler it wasn't the very best pianist in the world :/
Huh. The cartridges make me think that this keyboard is kind of like a musical version of an old LeapPad. Then again, that may just be my nostalgia talking.
Fisher-Price had a variant of the LeapPad called the Powertouch Learning System. I had one in preschool and kindergarten, then in first grade my parents got me a LeapPad, since the Powertouch was too pathetic for even my 6-year-old self.
10:22 "Normally, I'm pretty good about taking things apart and putting them back together. There will be no re-assembky of this thing. This is more like an autopsy at this point" Ohh man that line, best evil speech ever!!
I'm not a millennial nor do I have any children but I don't get the whole complaining about millennials getting participation trophies thing. It isn't the millennials that are handing out the trophies, it's their parents. If anything people should be complaining about the parents, not the kids.
What he said is not a criticism of millennials, but rather of those who reinforce the "participation trophies" principle. Agreed with you, it is the parents' fault.
Fun fact, it isn't millennials who think praise is important. It's the trophy companies. They are the ones pushing the constant praise in hopes you'll buy trophies or ribbons to reward. They're making a fortune.
I don’t get why people act like it’s millennials. It’s more of a Gen Z thing if anything. I grew up in Gen Z, and I have to say, we got participation trophies for literally everything
dude I had completely forgot that I had one of these when I was a little kid until I watched this video then BAM when you played fur elise and I saw that shitty cartoon beethoven all the memories of me getting frustrated with this device came back to me, like woah dude thanks for making me remember this small insignificant but cool thing about my childhood
I have a mild form of red/green colorblindness. Ironically, I can see red and green just fine. I have trouble seeing purple and brown. And even those two colors I can see, but only if they are very saturated. Any mild version of purple appears as blue, and brown will appear as green.
8-Bit Keys that sounds odd indeed, though when I had a look at some 'simulatorx' on a website about colour blindness the results were not quite what I expected. I suppose assuming there are defective or missing cones it would shift the implied colours. If purple looks blue that would imply you don't see red well (or possibly at all). When you start looking at stuff like the light receptors in the eye but especially how the brain processes colours it can get quite surprising. There is a theory stating that the brain effectively works out colour differentially. Which results in light/dark, red/green, and yellow/blue as the axes of the colour space. since red/green would be the difference between the L(red) and M(green) cones, while yellow/blue is the difference between this, and the S(blue) cone, well, the possible results of colur perception issues can obviously get quite complicated... Certainly what the simulated images looked like was quite surprising, and which colours became problematic, and not obvious from the way the various types are described. I guess a further complication here is that rods have their own frequency response independent of the cones, plus there is a type of cell which primarily has to do with sleep cycle regulation which again has a unique frequency response curve. Officially that shouldn't be influencing vision, but you never can tell in biology. Certainly the rods would have some influence, since that represents your peripheral vision...
Yes.. My theory for a while has been that my red receptors are weak. I can see red. But when you mix red with another color, I usually don't see the red. That's why I have a hard time seeing purple or brown. But I can certainly see both colors when they are very bright. And I know it isn't just my imagination. I've taken those color blindness tests and they do indeed show that I am colorblind. That was always something I was not willing to accept when I was younger because I could see all of the colors of the rainbow. But later on I discovered that colorblindness comes in many forms and mine is a very weak form of it (which is good, I guess.)
It's protanomaly, judging by David's description. There are plugins for gimp that give a rough simulation of what such vision could look like to people with full color vision.
I really hate these products that have tons of hidden screws and plastic hinges... Everything should have just 4 corner screw that is clearly revealed and that should be it.
Anders Enger Jensen Maybe. But, for example, 13 screws on a 13 inch laptop is definitely overkill, not to mention tons of plastic hinges. I almost thought that having so many screws are for, in case you lose some, the remaining screws can still hold the case XD
Yeah, I was thinking of my regular sized professional keyboards/synths - they would not endure much with only four screws. ;) But yeah, they sometimes go overboard with these things. In the end, I'm happy as long as there is the possibility to service and change parts, not like the line Apple has ventured down with soldered RAM and such. :/
Anders Enger Jensen Yeah. Nowadays, it's kinda weird that we have super think cellphones but we need super thick power bank to keep it alive. In the past we really just take an extra battery and that should do it. As for serviceable parts, well, I'm happy to have a laptop that has 3 RAM slots and 2 hard drive slots... Except one of the RAM slot is on the C side and can't be opened that easily. Well at least I can have 16GB of RAM rather than 8GB, which does help a lot. (By the way, among all the technologies I kinda hate ZIF sockets the most. I mean, can't we just have something similar to IDE or SATA? But instead, we have something that we can never make sure the connection is good enough?)
PGA is a bit more robust then LGA at least. LGA, bend one pin setting down a CPU onto the pins, and it's game over. With PGA you may get a second chance to straighten the pins on the bottom of the CPU. As for something like IDE/SATA, not nearly enough IO to handle up to 32+ simultaneous PCI lanes, HDD controllers, RAM, USB and other peripherals without at least a few hundred pins. Would be super expensive, and huge.
Easily one of my favorite videos. Something about you destroying it but not being mindless about it (like so many channels bank their entire content off of) and make even breaking a plastic toy educational.
The Roland S-50 keyboard from 1986 can be hooked up to a TV and used with a mouse for sample/patch editing and whatnot. A couple of other Roland products from the same era could as well. They were all basically trying to be a cheaper version of the Fairlight CMI, which came with its own monochrome CRT monitor as part of the system. These were all expensive professional instruments though. I agree that TV output definitely should have been explored for the consumer/education markets. It would have been a killer feature
Hi Dave, I have been in the situation of looking for hidden screws too. A magnet can help you in cases like this. Unless the screws are brass of course.
Loved it when you finally said screw it and destroyed the thing to get it open. Depending on how new or old the thing is, those blobs are likely full SoC (System On Chip) - not only a microprocessor but essentially a whole computer. Memory, storage, code, video and audio hardware, general purpose IO. Soon as I saw it was storing and playing digital audio (the speech in the menus) I knew there was more horsepower in there than your DX7s and D-50s, which typically only had, like, a 4-bit micro controller to run the display and interface, and write registers to the synth and DSP chips to set them up to play a particular sound. This thing is more like the LeapFrog handheld games from a decade ago that were actually running embedded Linux and if you opened a cartridge and soldered wires to two particular pins on the edge connector, you could make a serial connection and actually get to a shell prompt and do all sorts of fun stuff. Love your stuff, keep it coming!
me too, Im laughing in tears watching him going from gentle review from kid-piano Terminator; even laughed hard when, after destroying almost the entire upper keyboard he found the screws beneath the sticker :p
Well, I'm not sure if this thing actually helped any kids learn to play piano, but you're videos actually inspired me to dig out my family's old Casio keyboard, clean it up a bit and try my hand at it.
If you are still curious on the subject, I know of a RUclipsr, MattPicsET, who uses a 2003 Casio LK-90tv General MIDI keyboard for his music demos, and he said that it even connected to a tv for like a karaoke-style learning experience. It's the same concept as the keyboard you showed in the video, except it was obviously aimed more for teenagers and adults. 😉
That's the trouble with kids electronics, they're frustratingly cheap and nasty, after all, they're designed to be used twice then left in the toybox 'til the parents clear it all out... :P
I got one of these pianos for my 5th birthday in 2006. It was very dysfunctional. Some days it would work, and others day it wouldn't. It was weird. Plus, the only cartridge I had was the yellow one. Believe it or not though, I still have it. I don't think it works anymore though. If I can remember correctly, I lost the AC thingy while switching houses in 2007.
This video was fun to watch, great job. Even if that keyboard was a POS, you approached it perfectly by destroying it! I love all of these 8-Bit Key videos and I don't even play the piano.
Someone else might've got there before me, but there actually were one or two '80s keyboards that DID have video output. The Roland S50 sampler and some of its relatives had a Texas Instruments TMS3556 for on-screen editing of samples and sequences, but to be fair these were very expensive instruments at the time. I don't know of any "consumer-grade" stuff that had anything similar.
*sigh* "practice more!"/ "keep trying!" Or "Try again!" Would have been better for them to say 😂 I agree with your review. As a kid I would have been bored with it quick. I learned music using my Talking Wiz Kid from the 80s lol!
I am part colorblind too. To be specific, it might not even be colorblindness, it's like i cant differentiate some colors. Like greenish blue is impossible for me to determine wether is it blue or is it green. Same with dark blue, i always see it as purple
I have one of these keyboards that I gutted and threw in an Arduino programmed as a sound module using an R/2R DAC. Later reconfigured it to use PWM for waveform generation. Totally feel the pain of those 2 hidden screws.
I dug it out of the shed, got some photos and threw together a "quick" write-up of what I can remember. This project was about 5 years ago and got stalled due to work commitments before I got to a finished state. I'm planning on revisiting this in the near future as a MIDI sound module, but in the meantime, what I can manage to remember can be found at retrotechadventures.xyz/2017/01/16/arduino-in-a-fisher-price-keyboard/
So having worked in ewaste recycling, before we built a massive shredder to deal with things like this, i can say that childrens toys are ridiculously tough to break proportionate to the amount of recoverable material inside. A pc can be fully dismantled in about 2 minutes. A laptop even faster, but anything made by fisher price? 10 minutes minimum.
I don't know why the hell this was in my Recommended, but it was hilarious, and most definitely entertaining. Please do review & destruction more like this!
Parents don't like toys that talk down to their kids. That's why toys don't do that, people wouldn't buy them. I love the Millennial generation crap, you can find the same arguments about previous generations bitching about baby boomers haha.
Nukleon is right. The original definition of millennial is someone who GRADUATED on or around the millennium. Not kids born after 2000. That said, these generational labels are all but meaningless.
I agree. The labels just seem to be there for people to demonize "those darn kids" with their rock and/or roll and Pixy Stix. It's been going on for as long as some people have been older than other people. I hope I never get like that and understand the next generation is (or will be) just as stupid as I was (am). Kinda funny though that "those darn kids" - Millennials - are actually full-grown adults.
my sister has this keyboard, if you turn both hands on and press the number 4 during songs it actually does get pretty complex for someone who's not a pro, it also turns off all the cartoony stuff and turns the screen sideways making it look more like a music sheet, toobad you didn't play with it a little longer
i guess I'm kinda off topic but does anybody know a good place to stream newly released movies online?
@Guillermo Angelo Flixportal :P
thanks, I signed up and it seems to work :D I appreciate it !
@Guillermo Angelo no problem :D
4:11 Press the Enter button to GAMES!
LMAO
Im glad I wasn’t the only person who lol’d at that
KING OF start
Use the arrow buttons to song!
i was about to comment this exactly
TITLE: Destruction of the Fisher Price "I Can Play" keyboard
ME: "Oh, maybe he's gonna do some circuit bending!"
THE VIDEO: *literally cutting into the plastic with a handsaw*
DJ4x I was honestly expecting him to cut it open with a handsaw, as that’s exactly what I’d have done. Except I probably wouldn’t have been able to find a handsaw and would’ve gone at it with a breadknife or some other sharp, serrated thing that really wasn’t designed for that job and would make things infinitely harder for myself.
No handsaw
I mean the title isnt wrong.
curiosity killed the fisherprice keyboard
That destroyed my childhood.
But the cat helped.
"dad what are you doing in there"
[BACKPACK BACKPACK]
"dad are you watching dora"
"NO [THUD]"
"dad im coming in"
8 bit guy was found with a broken toy keyboard on the floor with a dora cartridge in it
Hahaha.
Wow. That is genuinely the first time I've ever seen anyone use the Somemong texture as their user icon. A year or two ago, that would've totally left me scratching my head because I didn't know that Terry wads are a thing in the DOOM modding community. I only recognized it because of all the crappy DOOM wad videos by Aquarius199 that I've watched over the last few months.
😆 😂 hahahahaha
“Dad I’m coming in”
SHIT
This version kind of sounds like and the beat goes on.
That Pop cartridge screams Kidz Bop
Oh Mylanta®...
You're right!
[Internal Screaming in MIDI]
Austin Shoemaker
yOU ARE NOW NOW ROCKIN WIT
KIDZ BOP AND THE KIDZ BOP KIDS
@@dumbmouse7256 thats basically what they did, be annoying and change the words in an effort to censor them, sometimes the old lyrics were censored for no apparent reason
so I finished watching and I have to say I agree with you 100%. the destruction was surprising, I didn't expect that from you. keep up the good work
Engitly ..nah destruction like on his mp3 boom box video was appropriate. I just hope he doesn't do that too often. I prefer the devices getting fixed instead of the breaking them like the hot knife, hydraulic press, or 'watch me smash my I-device' videos.
domb2NY agreed
Engitly This shitty keyboard deserved destruction. And that is exactly what it got.
well it is quite shit i must agree
It was a crappy product anyway!
I don't know why I found using power tools on an infant toy so funny... Laughed through that entire section... :D
***** Well, you're lucky. This channel doesn't count towards the challenge :)
oii victor i see you everywhere... :)
Sui Yo Hey. How are you on this fine, fine day? :)
I'm good, thanks. :)
Hey I've seen you at OSFirstTimer!
You got a score of 3! You fail as a human being!
You got a score of 15! Maybe you should try manual labor instead!
Travis Gibby lol
Score of 3 qualifies you as a cat.
Travis Gibby - LMFAO!! I wish there was a toy saying things like that.
oof
👍
Next time you seek a hidden screw, try running a magnet over the surface. Presumably, you could feel more pull over a screw than any other metal part.
That's interesting.
Wouldn't that risk damage to the chips though? I dunno, I've heard magnets can wipe or corrupt chips.
sքɨċʏsaʟaɖ yeah that could, depending on the magnet
that only applies to hard drives and floppies
Plus I don't think he was concerned with not damaging the item lol
"David wins by doing absolutely nothing"
Abomagoonios Entertainment Hahaha! I recognise you, aren't you a fan of SamJoe404?
Jenney N And N SamJoe404? I love that RUclips channel! Microsoft Sam is the best Text to Speech voice ever!
ZeldaACFan17 yay
+ZeldaACFan17 SamJoe404?! I missed him!
Akid HTF Sorry for starting a chain.
Guitar Hero does the same thing for low scores as well. Only a 2 star rating? YOU ROCK!
Phoenix Wright yeah as long you don't fail the song you get the "you rock" message
Well, you can charge the wrong people and raise false objections about 4 times without being suspended by the court, yet you can win a case and get legendary status. ;P
I can't play GH or RB on "Easy" because the missing notes throw me off way too much. Also, I wish I could turn off compliments in DDR, but leave the boos in. Boos are instant feedback, but the cheers are delayed, so it's always confusing what I'm being cheered for and it's almost meaningless.
I was playing DDRMAX2 yesterday. Failed a song (but have it set to End of Song instead of Arcade mode).
Got an E (a fail).
"GOOD JOB!!!!"
Damn millennials.
Let's remember the fact that a 10$ 2000s Kids keyboard held out longer against a Computer guy than Industrial IBM machines.
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📎⚙️
too cringy on Dora The Explorer scene.
Also perfect on 8 Bit Guy's voice impression on Dora.
YOU STINK.
YOU SHOULD TRY HARDER
BonziVids he just sounds like ratey the math cat
YOOOOUUU STIINK.
YOU SHOULD TRY HARDER. Truer words were never spoken
XD
Hater alert
Fisher Price plastic is indestructible. I still remember those big cars they made in the 70's. Built like a tank.
I'm a musician and tech enthusiast myself. Typically with a keyboard that small, I'll just play chunk chords as far on the left as possible, and restructure the melodies. it's technically incorrect but it still sounds good.
Josh Redwood 61 keys is my minimum since it was required for sonates. I had 1 octave less and did shift e.g. my left hand 1 octave higher too.
It's just easier to manage that way.
It should’ve said something encouraging when you failed, like “You did good, but I think you can do even better! I believe in you!”
Yeah i think the boomers are only halfway there. Like yeah people need effort and a reason to get better but you can provide that without being a butthole
Agree, that would have been a much better way to encourage learning while keeping being positive to avoid angry Karen mother sueing because your keyboard dare to told their 2yo toddler it wasn't the very best pianist in the world :/
Aaaa
I agree with that!
Huh. The cartridges make me think that this keyboard is kind of like a musical version of an old LeapPad. Then again, that may just be my nostalgia talking.
LeapPad was life
That Dude TIME TO CHANGE THE BATTERIES!!! that's all mine said...
DerpFace Better change 'em.
YES! LEAP PADS!
Fisher-Price had a variant of the LeapPad called the Powertouch Learning System. I had one in preschool and kindergarten, then in first grade my parents got me a LeapPad, since the Powertouch was too pathetic for even my 6-year-old self.
3:52 OMG IS HE THE VOICE ACTOR FOR DORA!?!?
That Dora impression at 3:52 was simply majestic.
Deepfaked
packgod be like at that first part (you stink)
10:22 "Normally, I'm pretty good about taking things apart and putting them back together. There will be no re-assembky of this thing. This is more like an autopsy at this point" Ohh man that line, best evil speech ever!!
I'm not a millennial nor do I have any children but I don't get the whole complaining about millennials getting participation trophies thing. It isn't the millennials that are handing out the trophies, it's their parents. If anything people should be complaining about the parents, not the kids.
What he said is not a criticism of millennials, but rather of those who reinforce the "participation trophies" principle. Agreed with you, it is the parents' fault.
Fun fact, it isn't millennials who think praise is important. It's the trophy companies. They are the ones pushing the constant praise in hopes you'll buy trophies or ribbons to reward. They're making a fortune.
Fun fact, it's actually the plastic manufacturer's faults, who make the materials the trophy companies need to give the trophies away.
@@yourfairyking fun fact, it's actually Earth's fault for having the supplies to make plastic.
I don’t get why people act like it’s millennials. It’s more of a Gen Z thing if anything. I grew up in Gen Z, and I have to say, we got participation trophies for literally everything
GREAT JOB! YOU SCORED -100 POINTS FOR DESTROYING THE KEYBOARD!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
:D
"There will be no re-assembly." When did you lose your soul, Dave?
He was never the same after Techmoan wouldn't leave him alone...
@@lepidotos :O
You thought that was stupid? See his video of killing 3 ibm prototypes.
Old man yells at cloud
JT Lowry SOFTWARE CARTRIDGE?!
Naaah did the mean man hurt your millennial snowflake feelings.
Varangian af Scaniae wh
You should hear his new song, "saw wave surfing", very inspiring.
Attention millennials, Varangian the whiny trump fart is entering the room xD
dude I had completely forgot that I had one of these when I was a little kid until I watched this video then BAM when you played fur elise and I saw that shitty cartoon beethoven all the memories of me getting frustrated with this device came back to me, like woah dude thanks for making me remember this small insignificant but cool thing about my childhood
You probably have only partial color blindness if you can distinguish all the 3 filters you used in the Quickcam video
I have a mild form of red/green colorblindness. Ironically, I can see red and green just fine. I have trouble seeing purple and brown. And even those two colors I can see, but only if they are very saturated. Any mild version of purple appears as blue, and brown will appear as green.
So yeah, I guess you had no problem with those filters :)
Oh, and I think that keyboard should be rebranded as "I Can Play! -Well, think again, kid"
8-Bit Keys that sounds odd indeed, though when I had a look at some 'simulatorx' on a website about colour blindness the results were not quite what I expected.
I suppose assuming there are defective or missing cones it would shift the implied colours.
If purple looks blue that would imply you don't see red well (or possibly at all).
When you start looking at stuff like the light receptors in the eye but especially how the brain processes colours it can get quite surprising.
There is a theory stating that the brain effectively works out colour differentially.
Which results in light/dark, red/green, and yellow/blue as the axes of the colour space.
since red/green would be the difference between the L(red) and M(green) cones, while yellow/blue is the difference between this, and the S(blue) cone, well, the possible results of colur perception issues can obviously get quite complicated...
Certainly what the simulated images looked like was quite surprising, and which colours became problematic, and not obvious from the way the various types are described.
I guess a further complication here is that rods have their own frequency response independent of the cones, plus there is a type of cell which primarily has to do with sleep cycle regulation which again has a unique frequency response curve.
Officially that shouldn't be influencing vision, but you never can tell in biology.
Certainly the rods would have some influence, since that represents your peripheral vision...
Yes.. My theory for a while has been that my red receptors are weak. I can see red. But when you mix red with another color, I usually don't see the red. That's why I have a hard time seeing purple or brown. But I can certainly see both colors when they are very bright. And I know it isn't just my imagination. I've taken those color blindness tests and they do indeed show that I am colorblind. That was always something I was not willing to accept when I was younger because I could see all of the colors of the rainbow. But later on I discovered that colorblindness comes in many forms and mine is a very weak form of it (which is good, I guess.)
It's protanomaly, judging by David's description. There are plugins for gimp that give a rough simulation of what such vision could look like to people with full color vision.
I really hate these products that have tons of hidden screws and plastic hinges... Everything should have just 4 corner screw that is clearly revealed and that should be it.
Plus maybe a few center screws depending on how large the thing is - otherwise it will easily get very flimsy. :)
Anders Enger Jensen Maybe. But, for example, 13 screws on a 13 inch laptop is definitely overkill, not to mention tons of plastic hinges.
I almost thought that having so many screws are for, in case you lose some, the remaining screws can still hold the case XD
Yeah, I was thinking of my regular sized professional keyboards/synths - they would not endure much with only four screws. ;) But yeah, they sometimes go overboard with these things.
In the end, I'm happy as long as there is the possibility to service and change parts, not like the line Apple has ventured down with soldered RAM and such. :/
Anders Enger Jensen Yeah. Nowadays, it's kinda weird that we have super think cellphones but we need super thick power bank to keep it alive. In the past we really just take an extra battery and that should do it.
As for serviceable parts, well, I'm happy to have a laptop that has 3 RAM slots and 2 hard drive slots... Except one of the RAM slot is on the C side and can't be opened that easily. Well at least I can have 16GB of RAM rather than 8GB, which does help a lot.
(By the way, among all the technologies I kinda hate ZIF sockets the most. I mean, can't we just have something similar to IDE or SATA? But instead, we have something that we can never make sure the connection is good enough?)
PGA is a bit more robust then LGA at least. LGA, bend one pin setting down a CPU onto the pins, and it's game over. With PGA you may get a second chance to straighten the pins on the bottom of the CPU. As for something like IDE/SATA, not nearly enough IO to handle up to 32+ simultaneous PCI lanes, HDD controllers, RAM, USB and other peripherals without at least a few hundred pins. Would be super expensive, and huge.
Gotta love the maddening disassembly. Fisher Price stuff was always damn near bullet proof
I mean it makes sense, because kids could beat on it
Easily one of my favorite videos. Something about you destroying it but not being mindless about it (like so many channels bank their entire content off of) and make even breaking a plastic toy educational.
"Press the enter button to GAMES!" 4:10
"Welcome to DIE!"
Was that Dan Green, the guy who does the american Yu-gi-oh dub?!
fizzmn I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING! I had to scroll down through the comments to see if anyone had mentioned it. :P
i only watched 10 episodes of YuGiOh
i laughed so hard
The Roland S-50 keyboard from 1986 can be hooked up to a TV and used with a mouse for sample/patch editing and whatnot. A couple of other Roland products from the same era could as well. They were all basically trying to be a cheaper version of the Fairlight CMI, which came with its own monochrome CRT monitor as part of the system. These were all expensive professional instruments though. I agree that TV output definitely should have been explored for the consumer/education markets. It would have been a killer feature
4:11 Press the enter button to games!
Dora was being ironic
YOU STINK! You should try harder!
3:54 lmao sounds like a 70 yo angry british lady stereotype
Hi Dave, I have been in the situation of looking for hidden screws too. A magnet can help you in cases like this. Unless the screws are brass of course.
Haha, You crack me up. The perils of the Keyboard Autopsy! 😂
my sides are aching from all the laughing, he really did want to get inside that keyboard, so determined XD
Hey, it's the Roland MIDI enthusiast!
Nice seeing you here!
Missing a screw by a few inches... such is life.
You didn't let your cat play, you picked up the adorable pile of fluf and mashed it on the keyboard.
Its fisher price, they are meant to be smashed against the floor by babies and not fall apart
Fisher Price should start designing phone cases to beat the Nokia 3310 in durability
@@BigOlSmellyFlashlight I'd be happier with a thicker phone than most of what's available today.
@surfitlive basically bring the consulier gtp bach into production, that thing was the fisher price of cars
4:11 "press the enter button to *GAMES* "
I like to game
I think this thing still has potential. Imagine if rom enthusiasts started modding the roms and put Doom or something in as proof of concept!
mfaizsyahmi. I think you would be learning the theme of Doom more than shooting.
Yeah.. it would be hard to control a FPS with this sort of keyboard. Not that it couldn't be done, but would not be fun.
mfaizsyahmi. Hahaha ,imagine doom running on a dora keyboard would be geniouse, if the processor inside it is 32bits.
Why does it have to be 32-bits?
Loved it when you finally said screw it and destroyed the thing to get it open. Depending on how new or old the thing is, those blobs are likely full SoC (System On Chip) - not only a microprocessor but essentially a whole computer. Memory, storage, code, video and audio hardware, general purpose IO. Soon as I saw it was storing and playing digital audio (the speech in the menus) I knew there was more horsepower in there than your DX7s and D-50s, which typically only had, like, a 4-bit micro controller to run the display and interface, and write registers to the synth and DSP chips to set them up to play a particular sound. This thing is more like the LeapFrog handheld games from a decade ago that were actually running embedded Linux and if you opened a cartridge and soldered wires to two particular pins on the edge connector, you could make a serial connection and actually get to a shell prompt and do all sorts of fun stuff. Love your stuff, keep it coming!
i'm just imaging using a shell on that keyboard :D
I wonder wich kind of SoC it is in this case...
qallincha I imagine it’s RISC-based.
If you get to the command prompt, type "sudo rm -rf /"
me too, Im laughing in tears watching him going from gentle review from kid-piano Terminator; even laughed hard when, after destroying almost the entire upper keyboard he found the screws beneath the sticker :p
Well, I'm not sure if this thing actually helped any kids learn to play piano, but you're videos actually inspired me to dig out my family's old Casio keyboard, clean it up a bit and try my hand at it.
Good luck xD
I learned more Spanish watching Dora with my nieces than I ever learned in high school.
Que aprendes?
fun fact - spanish version is used to learn english
nice strategy there
If you are still curious on the subject, I know of a RUclipsr, MattPicsET, who uses a 2003 Casio LK-90tv General MIDI keyboard for his music demos, and he said that it even connected to a tv for like a karaoke-style learning experience. It's the same concept as the keyboard you showed in the video, except it was obviously aimed more for teenagers and adults. 😉
More cats in the upcoming videos, please!
Yes, the cat was a highlight!
His cat is better than Keyboard Cat.
Pehmokettu onko tää tesla? Is that tesla? 0:37
While cats and keyboards (musical or otherwise) usually go together well, forcing the cat to use this badly made keyboard just seems cruel.
Wish granted I guess.
Oh man, stellar commentary on participation awards! Surely old men harping on modern convenience isn't trite!
That's the trouble with kids electronics, they're frustratingly cheap and nasty, after all, they're designed to be used twice then left in the toybox 'til the parents clear it all out... :P
Hit the nail on the head there!
3:51 That impression is spot on!
The Casio KT-90G (from around 1994) had a video output. It was a karaoke keyboard meant to play CD-Graphics to display the lyrics on screen.
Press the enter button to- *GAMES!*
You've never seen software more excited than ever
Press the Enter button to- SONGS.
*You Stink! You Should Try Harder!*
Press The Enter Button To Freestyle!
I got one of these pianos for my 5th birthday in 2006. It was very dysfunctional. Some days it would work, and others day it wouldn't. It was weird. Plus, the only cartridge I had was the yellow one. Believe it or not though, I still have it. I don't think it works anymore though. If I can remember correctly, I lost the AC thingy while switching houses in 2007.
At least Fisher Price did their best to have the thing kidproof. Right?
Jason Boon Recessed screws in the base would have achieved that haha
Easily one of your funniest videos - the Dora joke, the cat scene and the surgeon getup all mesh into a really funny video. Keep it up!
Also the You Stink meme.
Thanks for that..?
I had one of these keyboards and there is an option for playing with two hands and with an actual grand staff with treble and bass clefs represented.
This video was fun to watch, great job. Even if that keyboard was a POS, you approached it perfectly by destroying it! I love all of these 8-Bit Key videos and I don't even play the piano.
Someone else might've got there before me, but there actually were one or two '80s keyboards that DID have video output. The Roland S50 sampler and some of its relatives had a Texas Instruments TMS3556 for on-screen editing of samples and sequences, but to be fair these were very expensive instruments at the time. I don't know of any "consumer-grade" stuff that had anything similar.
Nice! Always keen for a new 8bitkeys video
10:20 ¨Play time is over, I´m going to win¨
Easy there David
Your Dora impression 10/10 LOL
*sigh* "practice more!"/ "keep trying!" Or "Try again!" Would have been better for them to say 😂 I agree with your review. As a kid I would have been bored with it quick. I learned music using my Talking Wiz Kid from the 80s lol!
To be fair to Millennials, those participation awards aren't for their benefit but for their Gen X parents. Millennials get an unfair rap.
It always grinds my gears whenever people shit talk Millennials as a whole.
Hell yeah we do! Finally someone who understands that it is not Millennials that raise Millennials.
Keith Gaughan yeah I'd say the reason score stopped being kept because of the fights parents would get in with each other and the coaches.
I wonder what people will say about kids born 2010-20? What will we even call them?
CrAzYgIrL I think they call them gen Z or smth
WOOOAAAIT, you're color blind?
Well okay. There are glasses to get rid of color blindness, but they probably cost a billion dollars.
I've seen those but I'm very skeptical if they actually work. I think it is a lot of pseudoscience and marketing.
Achil ADRIEN I'm colorblind to orange. I want to try those glasses so bad!
Sounds like a something the patreon supports can get for you :)
I am part colorblind too. To be specific, it might not even be colorblindness, it's like i cant differentiate some colors. Like greenish blue is impossible for me to determine wether is it blue or is it green. Same with dark blue, i always see it as purple
They actually work and they're not as expensive as you'd think. Check them out online!
He has a/some cat(s)
He’s a little colorblind
And he’s interested in music and computers!
This is my man!
6:24 Keyboard Cat
I died when he let his cat play 😂
Pavlovi Dank Meme-ovi electric piano cat 😀
WAIT 10:38 IT SOUNDS LIKE A PART FROM THE SONG
The Sunspire actually starts from 10:00 part
This is what you call a kids keyboard.
The most enjoyable part of this is watching your consternation and frustration in taking this toy apart.
"I'll use the Dora The Explorer cartridge."
*everyone cringes*
7:48 That double inhale though.
ahahaha I noticed that too, I suspect a bad cut
I have one of these keyboards that I gutted and threw in an Arduino programmed as a sound module using an R/2R DAC. Later reconfigured it to use PWM for waveform generation. Totally feel the pain of those 2 hidden screws.
you should send me some photos of what you did.
I'll see what I can dig out.
I dug it out of the shed, got some photos and threw together a "quick" write-up of what I can remember. This project was about 5 years ago and got stalled due to work commitments before I got to a finished state. I'm planning on revisiting this in the near future as a MIDI sound module, but in the meantime, what I can manage to remember can be found at retrotechadventures.xyz/2017/01/16/arduino-in-a-fisher-price-keyboard/
I always thought that Dora's voice was cringe worthy.
It's even worse with a "Grounding Video"
madden8021 ¡Sí!
"I'm gonna go to Chuck E Cheese while grounded or something"
"You are grounded grounded grounded for *insert long number here* years"
Swiper, no swiping! Swiper, no swiping! Swiper, no swiping!
TheThrashyOne Don't suppose that character makes an appearance on this.
Well it is pretty neat that it has a video out. Also I loved the Dora impression. 10/10
Certainly not the most informative 8-Bit Keys video but definitely the most entertaining one!
I’ve come back to this video so many times because I love him destroying this piece of crap.
What a strange device. I think you set your expectations way to high on this thing though. :P
Oh, SUUUUURE... Your *daughter* wanted to watch Dora sure...
So having worked in ewaste recycling, before we built a massive shredder to deal with things like this, i can say that childrens toys are ridiculously tough to break proportionate to the amount of recoverable material inside. A pc can be fully dismantled in about 2 minutes. A laptop even faster, but anything made by fisher price? 10 minutes minimum.
I don't know why the hell this was in my Recommended, but it was hilarious, and most definitely entertaining. Please do review & destruction more like this!
"Press the enter button to GAMES!" My life in a nutshell
"Use the arrow buttons to SONGS!"
I can recommend a magnet for finding those hidden screws
EDIT: Scratch that. Maybe I should watch before commenting... :)
-Isn't this the one you got from Waco? :)-
***** Hey there :)
Could you please elaborate on your comment? :)
Victor Tran you the same guy from the thing on OS first timer?
Victor Tran oh hi there
Your average Brit & Whovian Yep. That's the same me. :)
Ryan Hey :)
Vrabb'o'animate Hi :)
Victor Tran
You're everywhere aren't you? Or maybe _we_ are everywhere...
Love the impression of Dora
Love how you imitated Dora's voice.
Parents don't like toys that talk down to their kids. That's why toys don't do that, people wouldn't buy them.
I love the Millennial generation crap, you can find the same arguments about previous generations bitching about baby boomers haha.
SECONDQUEST I am a millennial and millennials are demonstrably worse.
Being a Gen-X'er, this is insulting!
Turrican4D I'd love that!
you shouldn't be allowed to have children
Maybe it should, say something like "Keep practicing, and you'll get better" Where it still says you should try harder, but not so strong i guess idk
Still waiting on the hover board from fisher price
Crazy Potato Coming soon to the internet (no, not stores near you, they don't exist anymore)
I think Mattel is supposed to be bringing one out, at least according to Back To The Future.
10:34 Such a satisfying sound!
It sounds like a Baby crying
Ok. That was a great Dora impersonation.
I laughed so hard at the end I wasn't expecting you to damage it like that. That made this video awesome haha.
Rip baby toy keyboard
you should have destroyed that thing completly
yeah
i thought that he was going to throw it against a wall or something
I thought he was going to get that guy with the steam roller to destroy it.
8-bit Keys/guy / How-To-Basic Crossover video?
He could send it to Hydraulic Press Channel or one of the 1000 degree knife experiment channels...
Pehmokettu that 1000 degree thingy is getting annoying
Millenials are between 20 to 30 years old now.
Nukleon Really? So someone born in 2000 is now 17 and they fit in the 20-30? Maths....
That's not how generations work.
Millenials are born between the early 80's and mid 90's. Not born in 2000.
Nukleon is right. The original definition of millennial is someone who GRADUATED on or around the millennium. Not kids born after 2000.
That said, these generational labels are all but meaningless.
I agree. The labels just seem to be there for people to demonize "those darn kids" with their rock and/or roll and Pixy Stix. It's been going on for as long as some people have been older than other people. I hope I never get like that and understand the next generation is (or will be) just as stupid as I was (am).
Kinda funny though that "those darn kids" - Millennials - are actually full-grown adults.
This is one the best yet, lol the autopsy of the keyboard was gold!
I liked it. Any video were you pull things apart is a good one. If you are able to re-assemble it, then that is even better! : )
hahaha totally enjoyed the balls-out dissection at the end. Hilarious
When I was a little kid I used to have that key board XD
Techno2301 Me too. this whole episode was super nostalgia trip
@@NicholasBoyko this was partly nostalgic per my hate of Dora, as she is annoying
It's funny how you make fun of millennials - but get annoyed and angry at a kids toy for not being harsh enough with you.
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That battle with the "keyboard" at the end was hilarious
Seeing you go big on this keyboard in trying to figure out what the heck was going on was strangely satisfying