Last night the boy and I geeked it out!  When I got home from work I asked Owee if he wanted to take something apart and to my surprise he said “yeah!”  So I grabbed an old STB that I was holding onto for this very occasion and dug in!

The kid made out like it was Christmas…he now has a PAL decoder, cooling fan, logic board and lots of cables to add to his burgeoning tinkering collection.