The Wi-Fi board is held in place via one large connector. A quick wedge-and-twist action of the spudger releases it from the main board.

Another flick of the spudger removes the Wi-Fi board's connector wire.

The main board comes off almost as easily as the battery PCB:

• Four Phillips screws need to be removed.
• Six connectors need to be disconnected prior to removal: five on the visible side, and one on the other side.

We are done with the first level of the disassembly.

Four black plastic covers need to be removed to reveal the Phillips screws underneath.

Removing the four Phillips screws allows access to the top display.

The upper half with outer case removed.

The antenna board for Wireless LAN is mounted in the upper right corner of the chasis.

The ribbon cables for the top display and cameras are coiled and routed through the hinge between case halves. We'll go ahead and add that to the list of parts we want to watch a robot assemble.

The thin orange wire seen in the second photo is for the microphone. Little DJs everywhere will drool over a new feature allowing users to distort the pitch and speed of music during playback.

The DSi has two VGA CMOS digital cameras (0.3 megapixels); one on the internal hinge pointed towards the user and the other in the outer shell.

Eight Phillips screws secure the battery compartment and the stylus tray/SD/SDHC expansion slot to the case.

The DSi has an integrated SD/SDHC expansion slot. You can now use a normal SD card for the playback of AAC audio files and external storage of pictures or downloaded software. Can anyone say homebrew apps?

The logic board in its full glory.

Chips of interest, left to right:

• Samsung 1st generation MoviNAND KMAPF0000M: 256 MB NAND Flash and MMC controller. The integrated MMC controller allows the CPU to offload the complex work of directly talking to the flash memory.
• 82DBS08164D-70L: Fujitsu Ltd 128-bit FCRAM (fast-cycle RAM) chip.
• Nintendo's custom ARM CPU. Our CPU was manufactured in September of 2008.