6. What's Inside The Fly, Continued

Here's what the sensor and ink cartridge look like outside of the Fly.

The Fly's plastic case holds nothing of great note. There is a small speaker and a pushbutton switch for turning the device on and off on the inside of the front of the case. The inside rear of the case includes a small circuit board with a connection for charging the Fly's batteries using an optional charger and a board that supports audio output to the device's included earbuds or a powered speaker available as an accessory.

The next picture shows the components that make up a plug-in application cartridge. The first two items are the front and back of the cartridge's plastic case. Thankfully the case is held closed with two screws so I didn't have to sacrifice it to show you the circuit board inside. The photo shows both the front and back of the circuit board. At the top of the front side of the board is an 8 pin 64 kb (8 kB) EEPROM made by Microchip Technology. Below and to the left is another chip covered in LeapFrog's identity theft protecting stone-hard goop. There's likely an ASIC chip underneath. The large rectangular part on the back of the circuit board is a 128 kb (16 kB) flash memory chip from Spansion, a Taiwanese company.

The LeapFrog Fly Pentop Computer's Spanish Pocket Translator application cartridge case and circuit board (front and back) - the board is actually 1" (25.4mm) high and .75" (19mm) across at its widest point