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Hacking Santa

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-you-can dept.

Inigo Montoya writes "Josh McCormick outlines how he has hacked a 5-foot tall, $49.84 Wal*Mart animated dancing and singing Santa into saying and doing things his creator, Gemmy, just hadn't intended him to do. With some outboard electronics hacked into the right places, Josh has made this Santa sound and act like a drunken old mall santa on Christmas Eve. There is also a video too."

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  1. Mirror by ZiakII · · Score: 5, Informative

    A mirror of the story can be found here.

    A mirror of the video can be found here.

  2. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    thanks a lot for linking directly to the video. Actually, fuck you ya jerks! I'll be forwarding my excess bandwidth bill to Slashdot.
    Actually, if you look closely, both links in the submission are to Coral Cache. Kudos to the submitter..
  3. Re:Uh by Emil+Brink · · Score: 3, Informative

    The link in the blurb looks cached, to me at least. Here it is again, just in case: http://members.cox.net.nyud.net:8090/jcmccorm/sant a1.mpeg. I got ~100 KB/s downloading it, which would be surprising from a killed server, so I do think it's a mirror. Aren't those URL:s typical of Corel Cache, or something? Now, if that in fact is a direct link, I'm sorry. :)

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  4. Hack A Day by CyPlasm · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hack A Day had this up on their site a few days ago here. In the comments on that page, there is a link to this really creepy hack that someone did with one of those Santas.

  5. Seems like a lot of trouble... by Belial6 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Maybe they have changed the models, but the Santa I bought has an audio-in jack. Heck the box even advertised a Kareoke mode. Just plug in a mic, or any alternate audio feed, and you have the same thing.