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Big Mouth Billy Bass Videoconferencing
scubamage writes "Whilst browsing the net today, I found a link to a hardware hacking project by a well established Stanford graduate. His goal is to take those annoyingly popular Big Mouth Billy Bass singing fish, and not only allow users to interface it with their favorite linux box, but also to allow it to lipsync, and eventually be used as a videoconferencing peripheral. Quite an interesting read, complete with step-by-step instructions to make your own, and software source to be played with."
Oh, and Geeky Thanksgiving, one and all.
If it wasn't annoying enough already, now there's a possibility that 10 year olds will start yelling "Boo, shithead" into the thing. Joy.
On the flipside, a talking fish, boss' office, you saying "WORSHIP ME FOR I AM YOUR OVERLORD" into a Mic...hmm...
I'm amazing. You aren't. SUCK IT
Excellent, Now it'll be as if the old trout is in the room with me while I'm providing free tech support.
I'll add that to the christmas list. I wonder if I can get one with a blue rinse???
When i worked at one of the big 3 computer oems doing support for laptops, a customer called in with one of those and one of our laptops.
:)
He was having a problem with the Billy Bass fish so he managed to rig one of our power supplies to connect to it and the fish started smoking so he called us to repair the fish because we didn't warn him not to connect the power supply to fish.
With the lack of a part number on the fish, we decided not to replace it.
The comes under the same heading as TCP/IP over bongo drums and Evil bob the builder toys - pointless, but exceptionally cool and well worth wasting your time on :)
An infinite number of monkeys will eventually come up with the complete works of
It's good to see that the wal-mart pcs will have plenty of accessories available for them. All they need now is a mouse made out of a stuffed animal head and a keyboard/gun rack combo.
The real reason is because as soon as one is discovered, the scientists will be sued by the funeral industry under the DMCA for reverse engineering their product.