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@TheNews1990

5 жыл бұрын

My Aunt Rachel hacked a baby Furby to say Rachel instead of Mama.

@TheNews1990

5 жыл бұрын

00:58 also they came out at the same time as Tomagachi, and were made by a different company.

@fredstreet1812

5 жыл бұрын

teddy ruxpin 1984

Actually, these aren’t the 1998 version. Those are the “Furby Baby” model, and they were released in 1999-2000.

@MondoMurderface

2 жыл бұрын

Yea, I was going to point this out. They were slightly less technically advanced but not by much. Smaller too. Edit: They are also worth more because they are slightly rarer.. So its an odd choice. He must have had them lying around.

@greenbeanfurby_

3 ай бұрын

I believe they dont have as many movements as the regular ones

@DigitalGhostCollector

11 күн бұрын

@@greenbeanfurby_ i think the only thing they can't do is the little dance movement. theyre missing the spring between the motherboard and the battery case that the full size ones have

@greenbeanfurby_

10 күн бұрын

@@DigitalGhostCollector true

How about a part 2 explaining and testing it in detail? Maybe a rebuild or mods?

@a531016

5 жыл бұрын

I'll put it to the team, see what they think! Thanks for the feedback!

AFAIK these furbies were originally powered with a microcontroller based upon the MOS 6502 processor. I believe you can find the source code online somewhere...

It would be cool to make an Alexa out of a Furby

@blunderingfool

5 жыл бұрын

Juan Bubu Not putting spying devices into your house is a better idea IMHO.

@JacobLaurenzana

5 жыл бұрын

Someone did this, you ca find the video with a quick search on KZread!

@Bosniarat24

5 жыл бұрын

I like it!

@goodatbeingnoob1336

5 жыл бұрын

@@blunderingfool Alexa doesn't spy on you, I love seeing stupid comments like this. If Alexa is spying on you, then the device you're typing on right now is too.

@looneybirdstudiosandbillyb7337

4 жыл бұрын

Lol that’s all ready done

i feel bad for the other furby it watch you rip apart its friend

@a531016

5 жыл бұрын

It's still a little traumatised!

@ActionHeinz

5 жыл бұрын

Well, at least it kinda broke my heart watching that poor Furby got torn apart...

@martincima5947

2 жыл бұрын

It'd be fair to do reassembly followup. With eventual repair of worn out parts. You know to heal him.

It would be cool to reverse engineer the Mic circuitry to see if it really listen/learn.

@Clara_Page

5 жыл бұрын

i believe it was just used to monitor sound volume so it knew when noise was being made around it, I think it might of been cable of recognizing clapping too

@zaprodk

5 жыл бұрын

It does not. It's silicon has been reverse engineered and it's disappointingly simple.

@billbergen9169

2 жыл бұрын

@@zaprodk link?

@MondoMurderface

2 жыл бұрын

It only hears loud noises. The newer Furby from 2005-2012-2016 can listen and understand words, but the original could only tell when you clapped or yelled. The "learning" is simply a float that increases during any form of interaction. Absolutely no language skills.

as a person whos deconstructed a 2012 furby boom its kind of strange how similar they look before removing the "skull" and after you remove the fur, the speakers are there, the weird white thing that holds the face on, the ear mechanic looked the same, heck theres even a cogwheel behind a small plate where that red rectangle was

I still have mine I remember when it started talking after not being touched for years in a drawer at night. Yes the batteries were still in it but it was still creepy. They were really glitchy and had to be rebooted often. They'd go nuts and just make noise. Noise it normally wouldn't make otherwise. I remember kids would freak out when it happened and get really upset.

@karwan6385

5 жыл бұрын

I never owned one.

@a531016

5 жыл бұрын

Fortunately they didn't bother me when they came out. But if I had been 4 or 5 years younger? Nightmare fuel!

@vanja4405

Жыл бұрын

I have one but not the old ones i have the 2017 ones.

@yerejun

8 ай бұрын

Mine did that too. Creeped me out

I kinda needed this so I can take my furby apart so I can turn it into Monokuma

@quinsomnia4934

4 ай бұрын

Did you do it??

I wonder if it would be possible to change the voice files/furby dialogue haha i can just imagine

@MondoMurderface

2 жыл бұрын

You would have to design your own board and just use the existing one as a way of getting input. Like an entirely new program for interaction. But it would be possible for sure. I'm baffled there isn't a bigger community around them for projects like this, they were so popular and there are so many of them out there still.

@309electronics5

Жыл бұрын

You cant its hardcoded probably you have to program a blank texas instrument speech cpu with your phrases and maybe reprogram the 6502 based cpu the furby uses to send the correct commands

The "resistors" on the motor are not resistors. They are inductors, and together with the capacitor they form a filter that takes the edge of the brush noise that would otherwise interfere with radio reception.

@a531016

5 жыл бұрын

Sorry, you are quite right, that's what I meant to say!

@themoonlitfurbling7104

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, I always wondered why Furbys sometimes catch radio signals or if it was a myth

@zaprodk

2 жыл бұрын

@@themoonlitfurbling7104 the filters are for not emitting any noise. It will not protect from receiving the noise. Any kind of electrical gadget can get triggered from electrical noise / radio etc. if designed badly.

would be nice to find out what that mic is for. if i remember rightly there was no mic activation's on the furby. would make sense if huawei made them lol.

I had a furby for many years: 1- I am pretty sure the mic was just for volume as it also reacted to sound/music and got scared and danced. maybe the sound input times also made it change its language bank faster? 2- They actually hated being upside down(shouted and cried) and you just had to keep them in drawer not turn them upside down. 3- It also had some games like simon says etc in it that you could activate. 4- The tongue also had a button for "feeding" this was awesome though thank you dismantling one. There is a new Furby, so maybe also look inside it too?

Potted epoxy chips always feel like a middle finger when I see them.

@a531016

5 жыл бұрын

I know the feeling. I am pretty sure it's almost always cost but it still feels like they are just "protecting their intellectual property"?

@Bin216

5 жыл бұрын

David Edwards It’s just for cost as they manufactured the custom chips by the thousand. Those cheap products where the standard chips have the markings scrubbed off are the real stuff you...

@ninjamaster3453

5 жыл бұрын

@@Bin216 wheres the love for the reverse engineer? Say no to epoxy pots. Share the love.

@309electronics5

Жыл бұрын

​@@Bin216not realy custom chips! A spc81a based on 6502 without the y index and Texas isntruments speech processor

This video really needs better overhead lights and possibly zoom(not digital) to show details, otherwise its hard to see details that you are trying to point out. Also I would prefer more messing with the electronics. Otherwise decent quick look at innards of the Furby.

@a531016

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the feedback, noted, and hopefully future videos will be better!

Am late but the cpu is a spc81a wich is a "sort of" 6502 clone but without the Y index register. the second cpu (yes this has 2 cpus) is a texas instruments speech cpu with its own codd

Wow, the quality of the build for a children's toy of that age was pretty impressive

@MondoMurderface

2 жыл бұрын

yea, and only 30 bucks. The newer models are 100 dollars and not really much better. The original was smartly designed to utilize older cheaper technology like ir sensors and clockwork style gear work to make it all work on a single motor. The newer ones just get 5 motors thrown in and bluetooth. Killing battery life and wallets.

I got one wich doesnt move the thingy with the rubber end to move the eyelids.. any idea how that is connected to the gears to get it moving again?

It would be a good idea to feed the audio from the Furby to an amplifier for a fuller sound

Wow cool :)

Just bought a yellow/orange baby furby that is mute, would the piezo speaker fail or would it be the be the electronics?

How did the run everything with just one motor?

@Davedarko

5 жыл бұрын

clever gears and switches

Really great! Thanks! So I don´t have to ruin my Furby found on the fleamarket in munich for 1€! German version! I speculated there may be a Texas-Instruments-SoundChip in there like in the 90ies dream-phone. You got a lot of great mechanics and electronics for the 35$ it costed in 1998(about 55$ nowadays).Prices skyrocket to 100$ and more before X-mas ´98

Rebuild it with a Raspberry pi and Ardino.

@a531016

5 жыл бұрын

It could certainly be done!

That's not a 1998 furby it's the 1999 Furby baby

Peeled furby almost sounds worse than skinned furby lol.

those are actually furby babies not standard furbies

3:33

Who else is here after long talks about AI and remembering some show they watched on a discovery show about robots 10years ago trying to refresh what they had heard about the memory stacks inside the furby. Yet no circuitry us explained....never going to find it.

You should have called it a Furby Autopsy instead of Teardown.

@a531016

5 жыл бұрын

Ahh, we missed a trick there!

The sourcecode can be found here: github.com/gnomon-/furby-source

@309electronics5

Жыл бұрын

Its actually sort of 6502 assembly without the y index i love that furbies use clones of popular cpus

you can do a Chuck E. Cheese animatronics

Oh great! Now I'm gonna have nightmares of you ripping the fur off a poor furby.... good thing it didn't have batteries otherwise it would be screaming.

@a531016

5 жыл бұрын

It felt so wierd "peeling a Furby"!

You need to rebuild it and make it better, stronger, faster! Da--da-da-dada--dada-da-da-dada.....(Six Million Dollar Man Theme Song).

@a531016

5 жыл бұрын

We have the technology...

those are both 1999 model furbies.

3:04 it looks like Wheezy from toy story

I have the First Furby

I did this this furby in the video is a furby baby from. 1999

Nooo don't break them):

Thats not a normal furby, thats a "furby baby" whitch is diferent.

Take apart teddy ruxpin and repair him

try an elmo!

😱😮🤩😍😍 motor love❤❤

i want to put in raspberry pi

@309electronics5

Жыл бұрын

Or just arduino. The original furby uses a 6502 clone cpu without the y index register

THAT ISIN'T A REIE 1THAT IS DAFINTIE A BOOTLEG

Now hack it to annoy my wife please lol

I think they're running out of ideas XD