[Robotgroup] All kids love Log!

[Betty Dingus]

I played with that at Savers! Finally gave up on figuring it out.  
Weird to have no markings on it. And I'm pretty up on my toys. Hmm. A  
mystery.

Betty


On Jul 27, 2007, at 5:27 PM, Don Colbath wrote:

> Anybody ever seen an electronic log game?
>
> I went to Savers and found this hackable item I couldn't resist.   
> It looks
> like a log, sort of a bread loaf shaped plastic log.  It takes four  
> D cells
> and has a speaker on the bottom.  It has four buttons on the front  
> and four
> of what look like LEDs.  The thing is dead.  Inside is a board with  
> one of
> those potted chips like watches and cheap calculators.  The buttons  
> are
> spring loaded and each pair of buttons is attached to a mechanism  
> with a
> motor and sector gear that trips the right or left button to pop  
> out like a
> circuit breaker.  Each LED looking thing has three wires going to  
> it. Could
> be red/green or maybe a sensor for light or something.  It's  
> weeeeird!  No
> decals or other markings to tell what it was or who made it.  Could  
> easlily
> become a ThereLog or Log A Ping or something.  Even a search on  
> Ebay yielded
> no results under log toy or log game.  Anybody know what it is let  
> me know.
> Otherwise I'll just have to bring it Thursday and we can all guess  
> at it.
> Remember the log lady on Twin Peaks?
>
> Don
>
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