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Here are the pictures: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskElectronics/comments/1td6hsc/for_some_reason_my_dumb_job_assigned_me_an/

So the goal was for an old retro phone to play custom audio when picked up. I went to a makerspace and got a student to help me build it, and it worked, but then upon UPS shipping to our HQ in another state, it somehow arrived completely torn apart (my conspiracy theory is they were tinkering with it themselves and totally messed it up on their own).

Now they want me to label these pictures they took of it and tell them how to put it back together. I am completely clueless, and the said student at the makerspace is too busy to help anymore. But here’s what he said:

"For one, they need to reseat the red and green wires going into those connections, there's a lot of copper hanging out that can short stuff. It looks like they physically broke the connector of one of the wires going into the Arduino so at a minimum the wires going onto the phone PCB into the switch need to be re soldered with new wires and connected to the appropriate pins on the arduino. It looks like they just straight up cut the other wire going into that. The electrical tape would need to be put back on to prevent catastrophic shorts and the new wires soldered to the board would then need to connect to the Arduino"

We used an Adafruit MP3 shield and an Arduino Mega. The student wrote the code for the Arduino and soldered everything.

I am DESPERATE for any of you lovely people’s help! I just got this job and they are already pissed, even though I told them I have no electronics experience. But they just thought “young person = good at tech” applies to this.

Sorry in advance for my lack of knowledge, but I’m happy to try to answer any additional questions!