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Hacking Furby

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the advanced-technology dept.

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. "

21 comments

  1. too bad... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I just think it's too bad that no one was able to hack the talking barbie doll...that one had some real hayduking potential....

  2. humor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0


    Humor

    5. That quality of the imagination which gives to ideas an incongruous or fantastic turn, and tends to excite laughter or mirth by ludicrous images or representations; a playful fancy; facetiousness.

  3. Orbital Shirt? (Not Furby related -- Off topic) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Dude, is that an Orbital shirt you're wearing in one of those pics on your homepage? Where'd you get it?

  4. No Subject Given by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Just think if all those time wasting creative forces concentrated on, say,
    Mozilla. We'd have a full finished stable release by now :-

  5. Brain transplant. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    How about we take the furby brain and put it to some good use? How about putting it in a RealDoll www.realdoll.com? Different moans and groans for different parts of the body and stuff. Mommy I know what I want for christmas next year. Imagine the waiting list.

  6. This is so old.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0


    that it was actually mentioned in the comments under the autopsy article....

    Cool anyway.

  7. Hack the IR protocol... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    so I can program my HP48 to annoy those little kids. Hehe...

  8. too bad... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    Stuff about the hacked Barbie can be read at e.g. (r)TMark's site and especially the BLO stuff linked from there (http://www.virago-net.com/brillo/No1/b lo.htm)

    Enjoy,

    /* era */

    (too lazy to create an account just to post this)

  9. Good grief by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    My point was that hacking Furby is a particularly pointless project.
    If you are are hardware/protocol hacker, then an example (sic) of a
    useful project would be to hack some graphics card drivers. I am not
    telling people what to do, I merely know a stupid thing when I see
    one (especially if it is so braindead as hacking a Furby).

    P.S. Slashdot promises that "Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or
    Offensive comments might be moderated", but apparently the rudest
    flames are OK. Oh well...

  10. Tiger Electronics' death camps by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I think the most important part of Furby Hack page is the link to the NY Post story about the Furby Sweatshop. It makes me pritty mad to hear that the Furby factories meet Hasbro's "code of ethics" while failing to be prepaired to reduce deaths if a factory fire should occur. Marc Rosenberg's statements about the treatment of the workers being competitive with the environment of Asia might lead some to believe that Tiger would have Furbys built in Natzi death camps if the Natzi goverment was still in power. Considering the monsters that Tiger Electronics has become to get Furby's made cheaply, I think this is one "toy" I can do without.

  11. BEEPO!! by gavinhall · · Score: 0
    Posted by BEEPO!!:

    Ho! Ho! Bring back meept ! Meept is finished.

  12. If only I wern't poor. by gavinhall · · Score: 1

    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?

  13. Furby Supercomputing Cluster by aprentic · · Score: 1

    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.

  14. broken link? by the+merrie+wanderer · · Score: 1

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

  15. hacking Furby by hime · · Score: 1

    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.

  16. Orbital Shirt? (it most certainly is) by hime · · Score: 1

    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).

  17. Brain transplant. by chexc · · Score: 1


    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

  18. hehehe by friscoz3 · · Score: 1

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

  19. too bad... by cswiii · · Score: 1

    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?

  20. S&S? by singer · · Score: 1

    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, 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. A write-up of the album is here, basically imagine a few speak'n'spells added with modulators, pitch-shift it a bit, and record the noise it makes......
    excellent music, btw.

  21. CrackFurbies by vab · · Score: 1

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

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