Community de-meh-lition- calculator edition

dashcloud posted some pics said Thu, Aug 28th 2014 at 8:51pm ET

So, after seeing lots of teardowns and @harrison's great de-meh-litions, and being disappointed that no more were happening, I took it upon myself to make one.
I grabbed a broken calculator from work, and broke it down for my (and hopefully others) enjoyment.
The calculator:

Back side:

Back of the board:

There's a piece of metal on the back cover that gives the calculator weight:

And finally, the front side of the board:

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jimmyd103 said Thu, Aug 28th 2014 at 10:08pm ET:

Cool

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cengland0 said Fri, Aug 29th 2014 at 9:42am ET:

If you like teardowns, I watch all of Dave Jones' videos. He's an Electronics Engineer and does a teardown nearly every Tuesday (a.k.a, Teardown Tuesdays). His latest one was a pacemaker monitor:

He has many other videos that are cool to watch too. Here's his website: http://www.eevblog.com/

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harrison said Fri, Aug 29th 2014 at 10:38am ET:

Wait, I don't have to take apart what we're selling? I can just tear open any old thing I have around? Why didn't anyone tell me sooner?

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  Kleineleh said Fri, Aug 29th 2014 at 10:53am ET
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- @harrison Sure, why not? Besides, wouldn't it be fun to see how many VW parts are in a Porsche?
  
  narfcake said Fri, Aug 29th 2014 at 11:08am ET
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- @harrison I personally want to see the merch for sale torn up, not just any old thing. We're not searching the web for teardown videos. @dashcloud was just filling the void that we've all been feeling since your last teardown.
  
  bluedyn said Fri, Aug 29th 2014 at 11:22am ET
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- @narfcake not really in the mood for death by @snapster today
  
  harrison said Fri, Aug 29th 2014 at 11:23am ET
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- @harrison Ya, but if you claim it's for both Science and the Community, can he really be mad?
  
  TaRDy said Fri, Aug 29th 2014 at 12:05pm ET
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- @narfcake I'd actually like to turn the thing into a VW. I took all the badging off a while back (that's as close to a de-meh-lition as I get):
  
  snapster said Fri, Aug 29th 2014 at 1:16pm ET
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- @snapster Well, if you didn't really mind that extra second getting to 60 mph you could have bought a Touareg Hybrid. Or you could simply pretend it was 1987 and steal the VW badges off some poor schmuck's car and slap them on the Cayenne!
  
  cinoclav said Fri, Aug 29th 2014 at 2:57pm ET
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- @bluedyn Forgot to say this earlier, but thank you for posting this. I feel the same way. Looking forward to future teardowns of products.
  
  dashcloud said Fri, Aug 29th 2014 at 9:28pm ET
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- @dashcloud I appreciate you trying to inspire @harrison to restart the destruction. Thank you too.
  
  bluedyn said Fri, Aug 29th 2014 at 10:13pm ET
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