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Hi I daughter has an Elmo Live which just fell from the table today when it was dancing and just stopped wokring from then. I tried changing batteries and tried sahking and pressing the different button but nothign seems to work. I then realized that if I shake the robot I can hear something and it was coming from the right foot - this is the foot wher the batteries need to be inserted and there is also a button on the toes that can be pressed. Please note that I am not an expert in anyway and do not understand electronics. I decided to open and take a look and so I unscrewed and took the section of the right foot (picture below) off from where the noise was coming from.

Let me describe the noise. It sounds as if there in a screw inside a plastic match box and its being shaken. Once I got that section in my hands I have narrowed down to see exactly what was making that rattling sound when shaken and found it came from the below area.

I could understand that the sound was coming from that black piece of contraption and when I dug it out and check it again I was confirm that this is exactly where it is coming from. Please check the object I am talking about below:

From what my simple brain understands is that the there must have been something wrong with this device because it was making that noise (earlier there was o such noise). If someone could please tell me:

  1. what it is and what it is called
  2. how it is useful
  3. where can I find a spare (e.g. ebay)
  4. what are the specification that I need to check it I am buying another one. I will be extremely grateful if someone could help and let me thank in advance. Regards

Usama, the pictures are a little hard to identify. I keep thinking that it is the tilt switch. May be more, and better focus on the logic board etc, would help. 2nd picture left side looks like the capacitor is off, but I guess it’s just the way it looks ;-) In the meantime, take a look at these sites. Here is the the dissection of Elmo live and the parts might be available on here See if that will help getting Elmo going again.