#datadump

So, on Saturday, I got told I'm being kicked out at the start of November. [Post here]

Today, a friend of mine offered their spare bedroom (with generous and understanding terms), so I have a place I can go!

Downside is that they live out in North Carolina and I live in Arizona.

Mr. Blinky is always up to some cool stuff, and he’s a key member of the Tamagotchi community. You may know Mr. Blinky for their work with Tamagotchi P’s VDP’s, but Mr. Blinky has a large skillset that benefits the Tamagotchi community! Mr. Blinky just got their hands on the brand new Tamagotchi Pix that was just release yesterday in North America. Wasting no time, Mr. Blinky has already used his tools to tear down the latest Tamagotchi to see what’s inside, and they seem pretty excited!

So what did Mr.Blinky find in the new Tamagotchi Pix? Let’s take a look. In order for Mr.Blinky to get to the guts of the Tamagotchi Pix they had to drill a hole in the top of the shutter, jokingly calling this “brain surgery”. Once the hole was drilled the the shutter comes off by removing another glued support. Then the shell needs to be removed, which means a lot of screws need to be removed, seven to be exact. Like the Tamagotchi Friends and Tamagotchi On devices, the PCB (printed circuit board) is soldered to the battery box, Mr.Blinky believes this may be due to not needing cables, or maybe to reduce radio interference, or maybe even just to deter disassembly.

After heating up the soldering iron Mr.Blinky popped out the PCB which is when the fun begins. The circuit board, the vertical row seems to be for accessing the SPI memory, and there appears to be some debug pads for the MCU (multipoint control unit). Mr.Blinky was also able to remove the camera, and the plastic around the LCD screen. Under the LCD screen you will see there is no black block of expoxy, bu rather a genuine chip, yay for silicon! It’s a GPL32610B chip from General Plus, ARM7 CPU with up to 96mhz (it may be under clocked) There is also 32KB of internal RAM with embedded 4M x16-bit SDRAM.

The touch buttons, camera, and LCD splay are connected with FPC (flexible printed circuit) cables, which makes disassembly much cleaner, and easier. Now Mr.Blinky takes the Tamagotchi Pix and connects it up to their modded Arduboy for dumping, which will give them access to the data on the device itself, such as sprites and more. It appears that the dumping was successful, and Mr.Blinky was able to get the 8MB dump done in just 42.24 seconds, and Mr.Blinky will be analyzing the data.

Google search volumes for terms related to Theon Greyjoy (blue), Euron Greyjoy (red), and Yara Greyjoy (yellow)

1) Long term search trend (graphics above)

Theon is by far the most popular (by search) of the Greyjoy characters on Game of Thrones, based on search data over the past 1.5 years or so. The spike in searches you see for all three characters near the recent end of the graph is from the week of the naval battle  (episode 7x02). Theon was searched more than Euron and Yara combined, that week. 

2) Recent search trends over the last 7 days 

Again, people have been searching for terms related to Theon far more than they have Euron and Yara, combined (about twice the search volume). See below:

3) Finally, is there any regional differences? Yes!

#Even more important

A comparison of Google search volumes for Theon Greyjoy (blue) and Robb Stark (red)

#Important: A comparison of Google search volumes since season 4: Theon, Jaime, Davos

Theon Greyjoy: blue

Jaime Lannister: red

Davos Seaworth: yellow

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