Texas Instruments Electronics Online Challenge
Texas Instruments (TI) is one of the largest semiconductor design and manufacturing companies in the world. That means we make amazing technology that is inside many of the most innovative electronic products you use every day. For example, you may not have realized it but TI technology is at the heart of the VEX IQ controller and many TI components are used inside the device. We want to challenge you to look at your world with the eyes of an engineer and explore the inner-workings of an electronic device of your choice. Once you choose a product, you will deconstruct the device, catalog what you find inside, and then submit a final report with your findings on what you discovered.
You may not realize it, but TI technology is probably inside many of the electronic products you use every day. For example, TI components are inside the VEX IQ controller, BEATS headphones, GoPro Hero 3 camera, Tesla cars, and the Samsung Galaxy. We challenge you to find a device (we recommend choosing something you don’t mind breaking apart, for example an old phone), and carefully deconstruct the device so you can find out what electronic components are inside. Most semiconductor chips are labeled with the company name and component name. Then conduct online research to discover what the component does and what its role might be within the entire system of the electronic device. Some examples of devices you could select to deconstruct:
- Phone
- Tablet
- Music player
- Pedometer
- Headphones
- GPS navigator
- Speakers
- Garage opener
- Camera
- Computer mouse
- Voice recorder
- Watch
Entries
Dell motherboard computer
Used for TI vex challange created by Robert J. Leggio
all these parts listed came from a old dell computer motherboard
all these parts listed is what make the computer run
intel af82801jdo: it is an i/o controller on a motherboard
i/o stands for input/output controller and used for the interface of an input or output for the
devices hardware typically found
on a computer.this is usually used on a motherboard for extra devices on the motherboard
allowing...
C64 teardown
A teardown and explantion of the main chips within the 1984 computer, The Commadore 64. The Photos and 300 word report is in the DOCX file.
EDIT: Doc file will not attach correctly. Report will be contained below. Photos will be uploaded to imgur and placed in the links section.
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Vexmen Team 80N TI challenge
Vexmen Team 80N
Texas Instruments Vex Online Challenge
Our team, 80N, took part in the Vex EDR Texas Instruments Challenge over the 2015 summer. We took apart an HP pavilion DV7 laptop, because we wanted to explore a device with many parts. We thought we could learn even more than we would with a smaller device, like a phone. Throughout this challenge we learned about where many parts can be found, such as a processor, fan, battery, and many more.
When we...
Game Boy Advance
Texas Instruments Electronics Online Challenge
The deconstructed was a Game Boy Advance (GBA) made by Nintendo. It was chosen because it was no longer functional.
4154C Deconstruction of Panasonic Transcriber by...
Link to Document in link section. List of parts inside of a Panasonic RR-830 Transcriber along with their functions within the sytem as a whole and including countries and/or factories of origin.
4154A iPhone 3G vs Palm Pixi
Texas Instruments Electronics Online Challenge
Ben Levine
Period 3
Mr. W
I chose two older cell phones: the iPhone 3G by Apple and the Pixi Plus by Palm. I chose these two cell phones because both phones represented development and growth for both companies. For Apple, this meant moving forward and refreshing the iPhone with newer hardware, but for Palm, this represented something much bigger. For Palm, this gave way to the new phone lineup, which included two phones: The...
Deconstruction of a TI Nspire CX Calculator
Cameron Knight
Deconstruction of a TI Nspire CX Calculator
I chose to deconstruct a TI Nspire calculator because I 
Texas Instruments online challenge
5297A has disassembled a blackberry iPAQ phone! See our reports about the disassembly!
Yuanling primary schoo Texas Instruments...
Yuanling primary schoo Texas Instruments Electronics Online Challenge
By searching information and studying old electronic devices, we found that many electronic products use chips of Texas Instruments. Finally, we selected a Panasonic mobile phone GD92. This was the first mobile phone owned by our team member Zhan Yifan's mother after she had a job. Her mother has kept this mobile phone for 15 years. We believe that what her mother wants to retain is not only the mobile phone itself, but also the memories along with it....
Kindle 3rd Gen Deconstruction
This the Entry for Team 1410L
Link to the PDF(if provided one doesnt work)
Both images and the Final report is on the PDF
Headphone report
HeadPhones Deconstruction Report
by : Team 7700G Rolling Robots, Glendale
1. Plastic cone with copper coil
2.Magnet
3.Magnet holder
4.Wire and electronics
Texas Instruments Electronics Online Challenge
The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2012 Edition tablet is the device for the Texas Instruments Electronics Online Challenge. The tablet was the most interesting device on the preferred list of deconstructing devices I had lying around.
Throughout the deconstruction I did not find any Texas Instrument components. I did find out multitudes of information about the inside of my tablet. I learned there are different types of touchscreens such as resistive, acoustic, surface capacitive, optical imaging, infrared, etc. From my research I have discovered my device uses...
Journey Through the DS
The electronic piece our group disassembled was a DSi, we chose because we thought the Nintendo DSi was not too simple or complicated making a nicely rounded project. The DSi is a Nintendo device made for handheld gaming. It's the third generation of the original DS. It can go on the Internet and is able to download games. With 2 screens (one allowing touch interaction and the other being only a display interface),a stylus for the touch screen, and a set of buttons including the directional pad, L and R bumpers, and the A, B, Y, and X buttons allowing you to interact with the...
Headphone report
HeadPhones Deconstruction Report
by : Team 7700G Rolling Robots, Glendale
1. Plastic cone with copper coil
2.Magnet
3.Magnet holder
4.Wire and electronics
Vex Online Challenge: TI Challenge 918D
Vex Online Challenge: TI Challenge 918D
For our teams challenge, we broke apart an alarm clock and looked at all the parts inside. We first unscrewed the bottom screws to the alarm clock. Our team then separated the bottom from the top of the clock to take out the electronics. We did the alarm clock since we did have very many old pieces of technology. We also did not want to do a calculator since that is what we thought most teams would do.
80NNightcrawler
Vexmen Team 80N
Texas Instruments Vex Online Challenge
Our team, 80N, took part in the Vex EDR Texas Instruments Challenge over the 2015 summer. We took apart an HP pavilion DV7 laptop, because we wanted to explore a device with many parts. We thought we could learn even more than we would with a smaller device, like a phone. Throughout this challenge we learned about where many parts can be found, such as a processor, fan, battery, and many more.
When we took apart the laptop, we found...
VEXnet Key 2.0
The device I selected is the VEXnet Key 2.0 which is the device used for radio communication between the VEX ARM® Cortex®-based Microcontroller and the VEXnet Joystick. I selected this because of its crucial part in VEX Robotics competitions and because of previous knowledge of how the system worked. The main component of the key is a CC2544 SoC (System on Chip) from Texas Instruments, a microprocessor with 32kb of RAM, USB, SPI, UART and includes a 2.4Ghz radio. The second to largest chip is a CC2591 range extender from Texas Instruments which boosts the range of the wireless...
Team 183 - Variable Frequency Drive - TI Challenge
Team 183
Team 183 had a treasure hunt in an electrician’s discard pile. What is the function of this blue box? The electrician said it is an inverter or a VFD. Our team dismantled the box (refer to photo for labeling of parts) and continued the treasure hunt. What is a VFD?
A VFD is a Variable Frequency Drive which is an electronic device used to control the speed of an electric motor. Electricity comes into the terminal block and...
Hexbug Nano TI Electronics Online Challenge
Hexbug Nano
I decided to take apart the Hexbug Nano because I really enjoy playing with all of the Hexbug components. I also thought it would be pretty hard to take apart and then name the parts afterward. Once I fully took apart the Hexbug I realized that the Hexbug is not a Texas Instrument product. I was pleased to finish because I worked hard to take the Hexbug apart, after I took it apart I managed to put it together and have it still working.
The parts in the Hexbug Nano...
The TI SN74LS08
The basics of our online challenge is the discovery of the TI SN74LS08 and the research of AND gates and it's function on the Parallax Boe-bot.
IBM Thinkpad T41
(Attached as document)
I chose an IBM Thinkpad T41 computer which runs Windows XP. It was manufactured in 2000. This electronic device was chosen because computer have many parts from many producers. It also was sitting around gaining dust. This challenge was a good way to put it out of business.
Parts I Found:
- Processor: Intel Pentium M
- Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon 7500
- Battery: Lithium Ion
- Memory: 64-bit DDR... Read more
PowerBook 150
As a group, we decided to take apart a Macintosh PowerBook 150 because not only was it interesting, but it shows the evolution of technology. The most surprising thing we discovered when taking apart the PowerBook was the lack of specifications existed for the computer. The Powerbook had only 4 MB of Memory. The next surprising thing about the computer was the hard drive. The computer had the still standard 2.5” drive, yet the amount of storage was only 120 MB. To put that into perspective, the iPhone 6s has over 1000X more storage. With only 120 MB, you could only store about 15...
The LM158N chip
I chose a LM158N ozone collecting chip. I was always fascinated with the chip has circuits that consist of two independent, high gain, internally frequency compensated which were designed specifically to operate from a single power supply over a wide range of voltages. The low power supply drain is independent of the magnitude of the power supply voltage. Application areas include transducer amplifiers, dc gain blocks and all the conventional op-amp circuits which now can be more easily implemented in single power supply systems. For example, these circuits can be directly supplied with...
Steven Ramsey's Essay on the LM158N chip
I chose a LM158N ozone collecting chip. I was always fascinated that the special chip has two circuits that are independent, high gain, internally frequency compensated which were designed specifically to operate from a single power supply over a wide range of voltages. The low power supply drain is independent to the magnitude of the power supply voltage. Application areas include transducer amplifiers, DC gain blocks and all the conventional op-amp circuits which now can be more easily implemented in single power supply systems. For example, these circuits can be directly supplied with...