http://www.bronius.com/taxonomy/term/36/0 en http://www.bronius.com/node/47 <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foryou/485532829/in/set-72157600181038881/" title="Dominic enjoying fixed toy keyboard" class="image_link" id="set_thumb_link_485532829"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/185/485532829_6264cb2fd5_s.jpg" title="Dominic enjoying fixed toy keyboard" alt="Dominic enjoying fixed toy keyboard" align="left" height="75" width="75" /></a>Why is it that every children&#39;s keyboard I come across has the most annoying and imagination-inhibiting feature sets-- most notably &quot;demo&quot; or &quot;songs&quot; buttons that play complete sets at the touch of a button?</p> <p>I can&#39;t stand seeing bright, intuitive children sit back and let the machine do the work when they discover the little &quot;song&quot; buttons, so I decided to disable this little keyboard&#39;s &quot;demo&quot; buttons.  All that remain now are notes and single-shot sound effects.</p> <p><a href="http://www.bronius.com/node/47">read more</a></p> http://www.bronius.com/node/47#comment electronics projects toys Sun, 06 May 2007 00:07:08 -0400 bronius 47 at http://www.bronius.com