Videos of the rescue, recovery and life of: Waves, The Haunted Surfing Furby!

What's inside a Furby


The original Furby was written in assembly language for the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor. The mechanical engineering is very complex, but has got smaller and more efficient over the years.

The fir is made of artificial 'faux fir' fibers and can be cut and shaved with ease.

Some factory staff were dicks in the 1998\1999
The programmers were known to change the pre-programmed voice control chip of the Furby, mostly by adding sexualy exsplisit, horrifically violent and\or offensive language.

They have several capacitors to store power for a quick and moth start up. Some were modded by constructors to use this power to randomly start up and move for a few seconds.

Hacked ones
These jolt about violently, flicker their eyes alot, randomly change personality and\or randomly spew scary phrases, swear words, burp, fart, random names, random places and older websites that aren't childsafe in a distorted voice.

Project Open Furby


Project Open Furby is an experimental project developed by Wroclaw University Of Technology with the intention of equipping the 2012 Hasbo Furby with custom controllers and A.I that allows the Furby to be hacked, modified, controlled, and more from a users personal computer (they have no intention to create a new commercial product by adapting Furby).


 * On their facebook page – Open Furby writes:
 * “The FURBY toy manufactured by Hasbro Inc. has a friendly appearance with outstanding capabilities in such price segment. Unfortunately, the manufacturer does not provide for the possibility of using its product as a HRI (human-robot interaction) research platform. There is no possibility of full behavior control. Our goal is to modify the current version of the FURBY and equipped him in a custom controller that allows to control him form PC.”

Haunted (heavily hacked-up) Furby


The are evil minded forever, don't like to be fed, have seizures, wrongly power down, get very deep voices, recite people's names, fart, bite, swear, cry, say life is tough, say they're scared, laugh, sing, make dog noises, sleep inappropriately,  screech, scream, burp, vomit (the noise, not the actual puke it's self), make a loud woman's blood-curdling scream of terror, fart and refer to horrific events that never happened.

The motor will then jam and it will slowly reset to normal after a lot of sleep. You can't kill a Furby, everything can be replaced or upgraded!

All the cases have occurred in Canada, the USA (most cases), Mexico (least cases), Ireland, the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Russia, Hong Kong, China and Japan.

Some Tickle Me Elmo and Telly Tubbies do a version of it it to!

Broken, fluid damaged, haunted, hacked, or abused Furby... or are they spying for the NSA and CIA?

Official disclaimer


TPW TECHNICAL DISCLAIMER: These are a fan made project that involves adding to possibly and otherwise modifying the stock software and parts shipped by Hasbro. Doing so will void your warranty and neither The Politics Wiki, FurbyWiki nor the Open Furby project are responsible for any damages done to your Furby. Proceed with caution!

Circuit bending


Circuit bending is the creative, chance-based customization of the circuits within electronic devices such as low-voltage, battery-powered guitar effects, children's toys and digital synthesizers to create new musical or visual instruments and sound generators.

Individual circuit benders have different techniques for discovering modifications to produce different sounds; one such involves connecting a jumper to ground and then probing various component and integrated circuit pins on the circuit board to see what effect it has on the synthersiser.

The circuit bending process has been developed largely by individuals experimenting with second-hand electronics in a DIY fashion, either with inexpensive keyboards or drum machines, or with electronic children's toys not associated with musical production. Aesthetic value, immediate usability and highly randomized results are often factors in the process of successfully bending electronics.

Since creative experimentation is key element to the practice of circuit bending, there is always a possibility that short circuiting may result in undesirable results, including component failure. In particular, connecting the power supply or a capacitor directly to a computer chip lead can destroy the chip and make the device inoperable.

Before beginning to do circuit bending, a person should learn the basic risk factors about working with electrical and electronic products, including how to identify capacitors (which can give a person a serious shock due to the electrical charge that they store), and how to avoid risks with AC power. For safety reasons, a circuit bender should have a few basic electronics tools, such as a multimeter (an electronic testing device which measures voltage, resistance, etc.). It is advised that beginner circuit benders should NEVER "bend" any device that gets its power from the mains (household AC power) to avoid the risk of electrocution.


 * 1) Switch mono-mini-jack output.
 * 2) A on/off toggle switch.
 * 3) Add some LEDs.
 * 4) A eyes flicker on and off switch.
 * 5) A eye brightness switch.
 * 6) A glitch/crash momentary button.
 * 7) A pitch up/down control.
 * 8) A 2 way glitch switch.
 * 9) A loop momentary button and toggle switch.
 * 10) A short/long phrase Switch.
 * 11) A prayer push-button Switch.
 * 12) A reset push-button switch.
 * 13) A white noise interference switch.
 * 14) A 1/4" Output Jack w/ speaker cut off.
 * 15) A TV remote control receiver compatible sistem (1998\99\2002 models only).
 * 16) Off= sleep.
 * 17) On= wake-up.
 * 18) Mute= Fart.
 * 19) Volume= Slowed movements.
 * 20) Menu= Sped-up movements.
 * 21) Back= Reset.
 * 22) Exit= Reset.

Furby simulators


A Furby who's 'brain' has been removed and replaced by a remote control that a human can force random movements, words, LED eye settings and personalities according to the user's wim and technical skill.

Furlexa


A bloke turned a Furby into an Amazon Echo.

Furby circuit voltage stimulators
They move faster and faster, make loud wrong noised, smoke, suddenly slows down and stop, smell, smoke, burst in to flame and disintegrate if fed a high voltage.

The FCC's legal statement on Furbys
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy, and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation.

If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:


 * 1) Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
 * 2) Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.
 * 3) Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

Also see



 * 1) Furby
 * 2) Sheeple
 * 3) Spin
 * 4) Economic terminology
 * 5) Killer Furby stories and creepy-pastas