Electronics 10 beantillon: Hacking a Toy

Well...I may have just outdone myself as far as my custom-made annoy-a-trons go.

By interfacing an electronic toy with a Picaxe 14M2 micro-controller, I have successfully bypassed all of the original electronic logic, creating my own unique program for the toy's operation.

Then I decided to get creative.

Unfortunately, I did not have sufficient parts to do EVERYTHING that I had hoped to accomplish (locking individual wheels to make the car turn while moving forward or backward) and some features were not even possible before I modified the toy, such as the press-switch activation which was supposed to occur when the toy was placed on a surface but was manufactured to a tolerance that allows the switch to get jammed in the open position every time the vehicle is standing on its own weight.

I have, however, come up with a brand new kind of annoying.

Using the LED masking function, I manipulated the electronic logic through physical and scripted methods to achieve alternating headlamps (fashioning miniature blue LEDs in place of what was once headlights which were painted on over opaque plastic) in sync with the toy's new musical output.
I'll upload the entire Picaxe BASIC script in a separate post.