Like taken out of userfriendly :) the horror!

Posted at 12:24 pm on Aug 31st, 2009 by rachael

You have no idea the horrors you have just unleashed unto the world…

Posted at 12:34 pm on Aug 31st, 2009 by DarwinSurvivor

He should have put an arduino in that arduino so he could hack it while he hacked it…

Posted at 1:10 pm on Aug 31st, 2009 by batch

I first read that as ‘internet enabled furry’, which seemed kind of redundant because they are already pretty annoyingly net-enabled.
Figuring out how to get them >off< the net, now that would be a truly useful hack.

Posted at 1:17 pm on Aug 31st, 2009 by Stunmonkey

@stunmonkey
Lure them into a faraday cage (o’ death) with the promise of yiffing?

Posted at 1:50 pm on Aug 31st, 2009 by TJ

I wish I could still find it..

There was a video posted (years) some time ago, of a guy (Charles Brush maybe?) electrocuting a furby with 14.4kV from a pole transformer back-fed with a welder so he didn’t blow his mains. *that* was a hack to remember.

Posted at 2:46 pm on Aug 31st, 2009 by medix

I was hoping for an attempt at a chobits persocom internet, but that would be no small undertaking, seeing how voice control barely works under a complex OS (without tuning and periodic use at least)

Posted at 5:11 pm on Aug 31st, 2009 by Link

@batch
I love you.

/ I lol’ed pretty hard.

Posted at 6:49 pm on Aug 31st, 2009 by Pilotgeek

to be clear, that’s not internet enabling a furby. Its repurposing the shell and mechanics of a furby. having left the electronics in place and functioning, while somehow attaching them to the internet would be internet enabling.

You cant ‘enable’ something *a* with something *b* after it was hacked out and thrown in the trash.

Anyway, whatever. nice job.

Posted at 2:23 am on Sep 1st, 2009 by MRE

@batch
lol made my day…

Posted at 5:57 am on Sep 1st, 2009 by jan

And then his homepage says something usefull..
“You’ll have to sift through a lot of newbie posts, but after a while your own filters will kick in and you’ll be able to focus on the important information.” XD jst like it.

Posted at 6:43 am on Sep 1st, 2009 by CodeASM

Jason Pelzer’s website
retrointerfacing.com>hackfurby.com>Jason Pelzer

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(Oo)This is Furby. Copy and paste Furby into your
(())signature to help him gain world domination

Posted at 6:47 am on Sep 1st, 2009 by CodeASM

He could have left the electronics in place and talked to it wirelessly through the infrared sensor already built into furby, this i’ve done, some years ago though, if i remember it’s just a 4 bit command mirrored to make a Byte, you can even talk to these things with a tv remote, how about a furby tvbgone, who would ever suspect a small fury creature?

Posted at 10:52 am on Sep 1st, 2009 by Funky Gibbon

if it was that esey

Posted at 12:34 pm on Sep 1st, 2009 by leer239

It is that easy, if i remember the furby command format is something like one high nibble 1010, low nibble not’ed 0101. there can only be 16 commands, dare i say even a aduino could manage that

Posted at 1:39 pm on Sep 1st, 2009 by Funky Gibbon

@MRE You’re probably right that to fully ‘internet enable’ a furby it’s nicer to leave its original brain in place. However, I *did* use most of its original electronics. I replaced the brain by the arduino, using furby’s motorcontrol, sensor-amps, etc. The hackfurby.com approach was more radical in that sense, taking out all electronics and replacing everything by RC servo’s. Still, making a infrared-furby-to-internet connection could be the way to ‘internet-enable’ the furby. I doubt however that the 4-bit IR protocol allows for full motor-control and access to all sensor inputs.

Posted at 2:25 am on Sep 5th, 2009 by edwindertien

ahh its a nabaztag… only it doesnt have RFID

Posted at 6:15 pm on Oct 26th, 2009 by DiRWiN