Hacking Furby

devin writes "We've seen the Furby Autopsy but that was just the beginning. Now there's a project to hack Furby's internals, including the IR protocol. "

If only I wern't poor.

[gavinhall]

Posted by Charles Bronson:

I thought about trying something like this a while ago, but since I don't have a job, it's more or less impossible to purchase a Furby. Especially at those outrageous pre-Christmas prices. 'Eh, what'cha gunna do?

Furby Supercomputing Cluster

[aprentic]

I have this image in my head of a thundering herd of furbies who's combined powers can calculate all the digits of Pi in 3.14 seconds.

broken link?

[the merrie wanderer]

i just tried the hackfurby link and it gave me a 404 Not Found. anyone know where it really is?

hacking Furby

[hime]

There's a guy on the IDM mailing list by the nickname of Solenoid who apparently modified his Furby to produce random digital noise, ala EAR's Speak n Spell experiments.

He said something about shorting between 8 and 9 on the PCB while it's talking.

Orbital Shirt? (it most certainly is)

[hime]

That definitely is an Orbital shirt. I got it at their show in Dallas back in 97 (? I think).

I also have a Spring Heel Jack shirt, they opened. I saw them later on and bought the shirt then.

I didn't know the shirts were available through CDNow. I get this question a lot, I'll put some text on my page about it, maybe with a link to CDNow so I can cash in. :)

Have I mentioned I have great taste in music? :) Check out the link to my record label's website (www.sonictherapy.com).

Brain transplant.

[chexc]

P L E A S E G O A W A Y Y O U S L A C K - J A W E D L U N A T I C

I'm sure there is somewhere else where you can discuss your disturbing problems

hehehe

[friscoz3]

I wonder if my sister would let me "borrow" her Furby.... too-lah-me-kah! heh

too bad...

[cswiii]

ever hear about the scenario a few years ago where a fringe feminist group switched the voice hardware in a couple dozen talking barbies and talking GI joes?

S&S?

[singer]

EAR are Experimental Audio Research, a band(?!), well project led by a mr.Sonic Boom, formerly of a british 80's band named Spacemen 3 [no-fi.com], whose music would probably be called 60's drone rock, but whose music had searing beauty behind it all, and incidently, Jason Spaceman went onto form Spiritualized [dedicated.co.uk]. A write-up of the album is here [no-fi.com], basically imagine a few speak'n'spells added with modulators, pitch-shift it a bit, and record the noise it makes......
excellent music, btw.

CrackFurbies

[vab]

So when is d.net gonna port an rc564 client???

Think of how fast we could smash rc564 with
a flock of crackfurbies!!!