only on newtontalk could i have gotten the laughs that the last few days
have brought
now if you could synch to a furby WITH skin
would you have another hardcore hardware xxx site?
mimi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephanie Maks" <newton_at_maksystems.com>
To: <newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: [NTLK] OT furbies was SuperNEWT
>
> 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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