{"id":9042,"date":"2007-10-19T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/19\/tooth-tunes-musical-toothbrush-dissection\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:36:12","slug":"tooth-tunes-musical-toothbrush-dissection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/19\/tooth-tunes-musical-toothbrush-dissection\/","title":{"rendered":"Tooth Tunes Musical Toothbrush Dissection"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Transducer in the head of a Toothy Tunes Musical Toothbrush
(Click for more photos (photo gallery retired)<\/em>…)<\/center><\/p>\n

As mentioned earlier<\/a> I had hoped to stop on the way home and pick up a Tooth Tunes Musical Toothbrush<\/a>. Well, I did. For US$8.99 I grabbed a Tooth Tunes which plays Queen’s We Will Rock You<\/a>. While I can’t stand that song, it was one of the few recognizable songs on the available brushes, with most of the others being tweenpop.<\/p>\n

After eating dinner and playing a bit of E4<\/a> I decided to dig into the toothbrush. It definitely wasn’t designed to be easily taken apart, with a metal rivet holding the O-ring sealed bottom in place, and the solid plastic pieces ultrasonically welded<\/a> together. This meant that most of my disassembly was pretty destructive, but I was able to keep all the electronics inside intact and poke around with them a bit.<\/p>\n

The only real problem I ran into is that the IC which holds the audio (and can presumably be reprogrammed) is potted<\/a>, so it’ll be very difficult to get to. The transducer itself<\/a> is pretty nifty, and pressing it against my teeth or head or the workbench made the audio quite audible. It doesn’t sound too great, but it at least works.<\/p>\n

Anyway, if you’d like to see photos which have better descriptions than the little glossed-over stuff above, just take a look here: Tooth Tunes Musical Toothbrush Dissection (photo gallery retired)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Transducer in the head of a Toothy Tunes Musical Toothbrush(Click for more photos (photo gallery retired)…) As mentioned earlier I had hoped to stop on the way home and pick up a Tooth Tunes Musical Toothbrush. Well, I did. For US$8.99 I grabbed a Tooth Tunes which plays Queen’s We Will Rock You. While I\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9042"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24650,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042\/revisions\/24650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}