ok so I've got a furby now,

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@aeva/115620614043295134

ok so I've got a furby now,

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

it was an interesting experience for the hour or so where it seemed to be functioning normally. i quite liked that it has a fortune telling mode. i think all vaguely notoriously haunted toys should include the ability to confer with the supernatural. also there's a guided meditation mode, and a "light show" mode. i get the feeling the target audience is people old enough to buy weed

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

however, sadly the thing is behaving as though the button on its forehead is stuck, so it can't actually shut off and stay off. so now the batteries are removed while I decide what to do with it.

there's at least one report of zinc whiskers forming causing the same symptoms https://www.reddit.com/r/furby/comments/1hn3vk8/fixed_2023_purple_furby_heart_button_not_working/

also I've found documentation of multiple teardown attempts that quickly descended into "fuck it, I'm not putting this thing back together again", which doesn't inspire confidence

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

however, the design of the electronics is quite modular, so while structurally the internals are a hot mess, hypothetically affixing the peripherals to a different micro controller is likely to be within my skill set. I'm not sure what I can realistically fit in there, but maybe I can fashion a little backpack for it to wear with its new brain in it. I'm leaning toward that solution so I can just use a regular sized rpi or that riscv beaglebone I've got in a drawer and call it a day

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

so I've decided rather than do something reasonable like try to send it back for a replacement, I'm gonna see if I can stuff mollytime into its corpse.

I give this project decent odds of ending up on the bone pile unfinished, but you miss every shot you don't take.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

this is The Creature, btw. allegedly it glows in the dark

[bertkoor@mastodon.social]

@aeva
Whas this new (I'm shocked if they still make them) or second-hand?
Refurbyshed? ;-)

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

#arkady was extremely unsure about The Creature

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@bertkoor they've redesigned the toy quite a bit since the original run. this one is from the 2023 (latest) redesign

[lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva peak performance body etc

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

also a friend had a really good idea which is that I should amass a collection of adam west batman soundbites to chop up to give it a new voice so it just randomly says stuff like "some days you just can't get rid of a bomb"