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Title: one furby's internals are another man's pedals...
Post by: darron on September 20, 2006, 06:00:23 AM
By the look of the victim's eyes, he never even saw it coming.

(http://members.optushome.com.au/bluespherecreations/forum/incident2.jpg)

Exhibit A: Furby's Intenstines. A.K.A. Stranded hookup wire. How useful is this crap?

Exhibit B: Furby's vocal unit. Ruby amp anyone?

Exhibit C: Furby only had one ear. Does that make it crazy? Of course not!

Exhibit D: 3mm & 5mm Infrared LEDs and an LDR. Tremulus Lune anyone?

Exhibit E: The vitals from the victim are ready for transport to units in need. Furby will become a donor. Includes silicon heart valve diodes, numerous transistors and capacitors.



Just thought you guys might want a laugh...
Better pic http://members.optushome.com.au/bluespherecreations/forum/incident.jpg (http://members.optushome.com.au/bluespherecreations/forum/incident.jpg)

Is that an inductor in there also? Maybe there's also wah potential!
Title: Re: one furby's internals are another man's pedals...
Post by: JimRayden on September 20, 2006, 06:57:23 AM
I wonder if the innards can be modded into some kind of a guitar-signal-proccessing noise maker...

I had a great laugh, by the way. Thanks for making my day. :icon_mrgreen:

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Jimbo
Title: Re: one furby's internals are another man's pedals...
Post by: birt on September 20, 2006, 06:58:21 AM
murderer :o
Title: Re: one furby's internals are another man's pedals...
Post by: MetalUpYerEye on September 20, 2006, 07:00:02 AM
Now I want a FURBY!!!!!!!! and yes, I would murder one of those innocent looking things in order to turn it into stompboxes. Say, what could the ear be useful for? What exactly is the "ear"?
Title: Re: one furby's internals are another man's pedals...
Post by: Meanderthal on September 20, 2006, 07:43:31 AM
 A condenser mic.
Title: Re: one furby's internals are another man's pedals...
Post by: RLBJR65 on September 20, 2006, 08:01:14 AM
You could easily plead temporary insanity :icon_evil: :icon_twisted:

Was that a new Furby or one of the originals?
Title: Re: one furby's internals are another man's pedals...
Post by: darron on September 20, 2006, 08:30:49 AM
Quote from: RLBJR65 on September 20, 2006, 08:01:14 AM
You could easily plead temporary insanity :icon_evil: :icon_twisted:

Was that a new Furby or one of the originals?

an original.

a good idea  i want to try is eq'ing and amping the speaker  to process your guitar, then mic it up in the box. this would simulate (but be actual) a shitty guitar tone coming through that tiny tiny speaker. like it's going through a 5 watt radio. for intros that last a couple of bars sorta thing before the rest of the band kicks in and your guitar comes to full tone.
Title: Re: one furby's internals are another man's pedals...
Post by: Mark Hammer on September 20, 2006, 08:38:37 AM
Actually, there are a number of sites devoted to hacking Furbys that I've seen over the ast few years.  There is a remarkable amount of stuff going on under the hood.  Not quite Lego Mindstorms, but close.  If only they weren't so damn irritating.
Title: Re: one furby's internals are another man's pedals...
Post by: BDuguay on September 20, 2006, 09:46:03 AM
That looks like a deleted scene from any of the C.S.I. series of shows.
All that's missing is Grissom and Willows examing the remains with their pocket mag lights!
B.
Title: Re: one furby's internals are another man's pedals...
Post by: Mordred on September 20, 2006, 09:49:36 AM
There was a guy that bult a furby into is a PC.
That was before he foundout how to switch the thing off..... :icon_lol:

http://www.blingmethod.com/
Title: Re: one furby's internals are another man's pedals...
Post by: darron on September 20, 2006, 09:56:12 AM
Quote from: Mordred on September 20, 2006, 09:49:36 AM
There was a guy that bult a furby into is a PC.
That was before he foundout how to switch the thing off..... :icon_lol:

http://www.blingmethod.com/

i'm getting blung out reading these!

i feel like building myself a new computer now lol... too bad i just got a macbook pro... took it on tour... broke the monitor.... ... ..

...

...

:'(
Title: Re: one furby's internals are another man's pedals...
Post by: darron on September 20, 2006, 10:02:30 AM
Quote from: Mordred on September 20, 2006, 09:49:36 AM
There was a guy that bult a furby into is a PC.
That was before he foundout how to switch the thing off..... :icon_lol:

http://www.blingmethod.com/

haha. that's true. you need to invert them to switch the buggers back on! i'm sure he would have just made a button or something to disconnect the power momentarily to reset it. i want to bling up a server case. ohh. actually. there's one beside me.
Title: Re: one furby's internals are another man's pedals...
Post by: MikeH on September 20, 2006, 01:51:55 PM
You should make it take your guitar signal, and spit it back out in furbi language.  It would sound like creepy devil-furbi speak.  Then you could put it back in the body and put red LED's in it's eyes.  AHHHHHH!!!  EVIL FURBI!!!
Title: Re: one furby's internals are another man's pedals...
Post by: Noplasticrobots on September 20, 2006, 02:22:25 PM
I absolutely loved the marked off "exhibits"! Funny stuff.
Title: Re: one furby's internals are another man's pedals...
Post by: Dragonfly on September 20, 2006, 03:14:00 PM
 :icon_biggrin:

i'd have fun circuit bending a furby !


rock.

AC
Title: Re: one furby's internals are another man's pedals...
Post by: billings on September 20, 2006, 03:22:25 PM
I think it would be satisfying enough to just put a jack in each ear and stick a green ringer inside.
Title: Re: one furby's internals are another man's pedals...
Post by: Noplasticrobots on September 20, 2006, 03:44:19 PM
What ISN'T fun to stick a GR into? :)
Title: Re: one furby's internals are another man's pedals...
Post by: JimRayden on September 20, 2006, 05:20:33 PM
Quote from: MikeH on September 20, 2006, 01:51:55 PM
You should make it take your guitar signal, and spit it back out in furbi language.  It would sound like creepy devil-furbi speak.  Then you could put it back in the body and put red LED's in it's eyes.  AHHHHHH!!!  EVIL FURBI!!!

And you can guess where the jack goes. :icon_mrgreen:

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Jimbo
Title: Re: one furby's internals are another man's pedals...
Post by: christobean on September 20, 2006, 06:47:06 PM
how exactly do you identify an LDR?  i have several things torn up in the workshop that could have them, and ive been looking at a few pedals that use the LED/LDR combo lately...
Title: Re: one furby's internals are another man's pedals...
Post by: Snuffy on September 20, 2006, 08:32:12 PM
Furby synths:
http://www.circuit-bent.net/furby-bending-tutorial.htm
Title: Re: one furby's internals are another man's pedals...
Post by: 343 Salty Beans on September 20, 2006, 08:44:20 PM
Quote from: Noplasticrobots on September 20, 2006, 03:44:19 PM
What ISN'T fun to stick a GR into? :)

several body cavities.  :icon_eek:
Title: Re: one furby's internals are another man's pedals...
Post by: birt on September 21, 2006, 05:30:22 AM
Quote from: christobean on September 20, 2006, 06:47:06 PM
how exactly do you identify an LDR?  i have several things torn up in the workshop that could have them, and ive been looking at a few pedals that use the LED/LDR combo lately...
flat surface (sometimes encapsuled in glass or epoxy) with zig-zag lines on them. the have different shapes but allmost all of them look like this.
(http://www.tonh.net/museum/ldr.jpg)
(http://rene.balderacchi.club.fr/illustrations/LDR%202.jpg)
(http://www.mstracey.btinternet.co.uk/technical/Theory/ldr.jpg)
(http://www.scs.ryerson.ca/~kanellis/sensors/ldr.png)