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The Internet of Furbies(blog.memsql.com)

17 points by neildahlke 11 years ago | 4 comments

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neildahlke 11 years ago |

I was one of the hackers on the project, if anyone has any questions, shout out!

middleca 11 years ago | |

Cool hack! How are you driving the furby?

neildahlke 11 years ago | | |

Essentially, we fed audio out from an Android phone through a mini audio amplifier, then soldered from the amplifier directly in the Furby's speaker.

middleca 11 years ago | | |

Ahh, cool, that makes sense :)

For a second I thought you guys might be related to this connected furby project I saw recently:

http://vimeo.com/106770438

https://community.spark.io/t/internet-chat-furby-with-spark-...