The death of a furby... (pictures warning)

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 6:09 pm

I was bored today and while doing... nothing, I spotted my old furby so I decided to kill it. But microwaving one has already been done and I could use the audio amp and maybe some other stuff so I took it apart. Sorry about the image quality, my camera sucks at close range stuff...

Here's the story with pictures!
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Staring into the face of evil

To get to the screws, I had to cut off the fur

Furby says "peekaboo!" Luckily that's the last thing he'll ever say

He's no longer a tiger furby... he's a stripper furby!

Judging from this picture, I think it's safe to say that furbies are in fact killer robots in disguise

I tried to get the other half of the shell off for 10 minutes. Then I found out I missed a screw...

Here's the brain of the furby. I was dissapointed to find out that there was no gremlin controlling it from a captian control panel thingy

Here's the guts

It just kinda fell apart from there. Apparently everything is run by one little motor.

There's some potentially useful stuff in them like an amp, speaker, motor, crappy motion detector, some leds, infrared led and detector, sound detector thingy, and transistors.

The End

Any qustions, comments, death threats, BS, etc...?

demonofaj · Post by **demonofaj** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 6:17 pm

You...You monster! That was worse than Chechclear and Guinea Pig 2 combined....

. Lol, maybe it wasn't, but really did it want to die. Also, was anything in there worth of interest, such as OMG, SECRET NOAC

ganonbanned · Post by **ganonbanned** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 6:27 pm

friggin awesome!

and BTW what is Chechclear? and isnt guinea pig a snuff film?

Post by **gannon** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 6:29 pm

Some LEDs, a PIC, and a serial interface would make it into a nice servo puppet

Post by **Sparkfist** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 9:52 pm

demonofaj wrote:You...You monster! That was worse than Chechclear and Guinea Pig 2 combined.... . Lol, maybe it wasn't, but really did it want to die. Also, was anything in there worth of interest, such as OMG, SECRET NOAC

He did better then let it go feral.

Sounds nice, but I didn't think those things were worth the money and really no offence but it was the dumbest electronic gadget fad ever.

*o* · Post by ***o*** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 3:37 am

...your evil!

any chance of a good shot of the board (macro mode would be nice)

Super Cameraman · Post by **Super Cameraman** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:31 am

I did the same thing like 3 years ago! But I drilled holes in the eyes and left the drill bits in them.

And then I made my other one into a puppet!

-Super

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:25 pm

@ *o* - i don't have any good close up cameras and my scanner doesn't work so no

@ Sparkfist - yeah, they are dumb

hence the killing

Sir Games-A-Lot · Post by **Sir Games-A-Lot** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:53 pm

There's a guide in a book I have about how to re-program furby's (furbies?).

Post by **Sparkfist** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 3:51 pm

Sir Games-A-Lot wrote:There's a guide in a book I have about how to re-program furby's (furbies?).

What you can make them say bad and naughty words? Or just have them act weird, start smoking and then die?

madc0w · Post by **madc0w** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 3:56 pm

Sparkfist wrote:
Sir Games-A-Lot wrote:There's a guide in a book I have about how to re-program furby's (furbies?).
What you can make them say bad and naughty words? Or just have them act weird, start smoking and then die?

First one. I beleive its like "HAcking projects for nerds" or something. They have it at my librairy.