Yak Bak Hack

[White_Rabbit]

Upon cleaning up all my old junk a few days ago, I came upon my old Yak Bakwards, a model from the "Yak Bak" toy line popular in the 90's. Basically, it's a little black plastic thing with some buttons and a speaker. You hold one of the buttons in and it records up to about 10 seconds of sound, which can then be played forwards or backwards using the other two buttons. There is also a little pot which can change the playback speed (somewhere between 2.5X and .25X times I'd guess).

Anyway, I've been thinking it would be cool to mod into something more... "useful". I'm open to any possible mods you may suggest or even stories of people you know who've done something similar. At the moment the only thing I can think of that would be useful is a 3.5mm output, turning it into a lofi effect box thingo. PS: the little speaker/mic in it sucks really bad, do you think I could somehow hook up a computer mic which would suck less for input? Ideas, comments? PPS: Sorry if this is in the wrong forum, I wasn't quite sure what this would come under.