I had a Furby for a couple of days. Had to know what was inside. Once you
skin them, they look a lot more like scary gremlins.
It had I think, two of those custom chips where the chip is mounted directly
on a circuit board then covered by a blob of black goop. No identifying
marks on anything. Very, very little in the way of electronics, and a whole
lot of mechanical bits and peices, gears, electric sensor switches and
stuff.
I originally intended to mount it all on a flat board and have a kind of
'visible furby' but it totally depended on the little gears to activate the
little switches in order, otherwise it stopped working. So, it stopped
working.
If it had anything vaguely 680x0 in it, it was without the normal package
and hidden under generic black goop; but I suspect the two ICs were custom.
-Stephanie
(who knows how to skin a furby in under 20 seconds, but knows also that
furby pelts in good condition are worth next to nothing on the open market)
http://www.maksystems.com/newton/
> Actually, I remember friends that are real Mac idiots having a Furby in
> their house because according to them it was basically a Mac.
>
> My translation was that it was probably running on a Motorola 030 or 040
> processor, never bothered to really look in on this, maybe NSA did ?
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