Trivia
The sound synthesiser was based around the Texas Instruments SN76477 sound chip. Since the chip requires a separate 9V power supply, the synthesiser block had a compartment for holding a 9V battery.
Although the EX-FM tuner block supported 10 new experiments in Japan, in the English language version available in Europe, only 4 experiments are described.
A Japanese man, Hiroyuki Inoue, built an IPv6 communication module as a block for the EX-150.
The Denshi Block system was also sold under the Skilcraft and Tron Link brands.
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