Texas Instruments Corporation

Patrick Rome

Steven L Ruzic

Larry Dale Thomas, Jr

An educational toy (,) having a dodecahedron shape is formed with a different visual display on each planar face (,). A position sensing mechanism (,) is oriented inside the toy (,) to inform a microprocessor (,) which one of the planar faces (,) is in the &ldquo;up&rdquo; position. As the toy (,) is turned or moved a signal is generated to &ldquo;power on&rdquo; and a musical tune is played. When one of the planar faces (,) is stopped in the &ldquo;up&rdquo; position, the position sensing mechanism (,) informs the microprocessor (,) and an aural response corresponding to the visual display is transmitted through a speaker (,). If the toy (,) is left alone for a specified period of time, a warning tune is transmitted. If the toy (,) is still not moved thereafter, the toy (,) will automatically &ldquo;power off&rdquo;.

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