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Furby Bounty Paid

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-can-I-just-make-him-shut-up dept.

donpardo writes "The Furby has been successfully hacked and the money has been paid. (Here is the original /. story.) By Xmas a modified Furby should be on the way to the autistic child who inspired this. Kits are on the way."

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  1. Now they need to... by Mr_Icon · · Score: 5

    Now they need to hack "Barney the singing Dinosaur" from Microsoft and make it sing "time for kink and sodomy", at the end of which he would mutilate itself.

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    If you open yourself to the foo, You and foo become one.
  2. I dunno about this by Breace · · Score: 5

    Is this really a hack? He's basically replaced the core electronics (the microcontroller).

    I would have thought that a hack would involve running custom code on the original controller.

    Not to play down the effort or anything, but I don't see what this has to do with a Furby. It's not like you can run to the store, buy a Furby, hook it to your serial port, reprogram it and let it yell 'fart', or something.

    Anyways, if anything it shows that the makers of the Furby have done an excellent job in making something that is _really_ hard to reverse-engineer.

    Breace