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Bob The Builder Gets A Personality Transplant

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bob-now-needs-a-7-second-delay dept.

McCarrum writes "Here at 'undisclosed company,' there's been a push to bring a mascot into our IT team. After much discussion and many excellent ideas, the PHB made the executive decision on Bob the Builder. Enter one Bob the Builder talking doll. Talking?! By Crom, that means a chipset! (cue evil laugh) A quick bit of exploratory surgery and a little research later, we purchased the equipment to create EVIL BOB. Want to make your own EVIL BOB? Click the clicky clicky thing!"

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  1. does it actually do anything other than link into by rednuhter · · Score: 2, Interesting

    does it actually do anything other than link into toys existing switches?
    The images show the speaker seperate with their voice recording/playback circutry
    I was expecting the actually ROM/RAM to be accessed reprogrammed hacked.

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  2. Re:Crom? by dick+johnson · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I know this is a bit off topic... but interesting all the same.

    Actually, Crom was a god who was worshipped by the Celts in what is now Ireland. Here's a link to some additional background:

    http://www.folklegend.com/article1072.html

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  3. Re:Are you thinking what I'm thinking? by AndroidCat · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is the Barbie Liberation Front still in business? Yup, seems to be

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  4. Another idea... by DJPenguin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It would be great if you could extend this with a PIC or something, so that Bob would be his normal self, but say something evil every so often to really confuse the PHB...

    Or maybe a small RF reciever so he could be remotely triggered to say something evil? Hmmmm... I like that one :)

  5. Re:does it actually do anything other than link in by blymn · · Score: 2, Interesting

    if you could divine the chip that lurked under the anonymous black blob...you may have a chance, even then I suspect that the thing is mask programmed (or, at least, fusible link programmed - a one shot process) so pretty much the original guts could not be bent to our will, pity - I did have hopes for that initially.

  6. Bob for nerds by M.+Silver · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Nerds who are *really* interested in Bob should go see the Live show. The in-laws took our then-two-year-old, and we went along.

    The vehicles are really well done... all sorts of RC servo stuff going on there. (The characters are good, too, as mascot-type suits go, but that's not as cool.) Aside from the fact that it was TWENTY-FIVE BUCKS A TICKET even for the nosebleed section, I'd've liked to have been all the way down behind the controllers' booth.

    It's a little unsettling to see/hear them singing "Mambo No. 5" knowing all the original words, but still.

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  7. Re:does it actually do anything other than link in by ncc74656 · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The chip in the doll was pretty much unusable, so we bypassed it (I prefer the word upgrade) to be able to do the new sounds. The bonus was having it so we retained the original Bob personality for when the PHB wanted it, and making it turn Evil when the rest of us had him.

    Now you just need to make it switch automatically...maybe RFC 3514 support would be useful here.

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