Furby Hacking 101

Chloe celebrates her inner 90s kid, showing us how interact and control Furby Connect (the BLE-enabled version of the classic toy) from your Linux macOS, FreeBSD, or Windows machine.
She shares her favorite pre-programmed actions, available via the fluffd GitHub repo, including changing antenna colors, making Furby dance and sing, and dozens more.
Future posts will dive deeper into the code and custom actions, video recordings of Chloe’s Custom Furby Connect in action (pun intended), and general nostalgia.
Intro: start-3:57
Tutorial: 3:58-end
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[@arlen7726]

Making a Furby that’s visually one of the ‘classic’ ones, but with the software capabilities of or more software capabilities than the newest ones would be super cool honestly

[@louisejanice9911]

This was so exciting! I don’t think I’ll ever be able to figure it out though...technologically unskilled probably beyond learning that much info. However this fascinated me big time, I’ve been into furbies since they came out in the 90s and wasn’t allowed obnoxious toys. I always liked the actually robotics and interactive stuff but most of the Furby community that I see online only really like customizing their appearances and more often than not remove the actual robotics or never use them and I felt awkward because I love my Connect and turning him on and hearing him talk but it seems like most Furby collectors really don’t??? I love this other side of Furby fans I think I’m somewhere in the middle :-)

[@silverwatermermaid1563]

Same, I want to make a long furby boom without it only being a face plate or stopping it from moving up and down so I'm thinking of getting a second battery cover to attach a spine to and make it possible to take it out of a long skin and put it back in its original skin. I've come across one living long 2012 furby that I think you'd be interested in seeing, it's in a video by Chloebee called I made a long furby for the memes. If you like the 1998 versions more Fraya's footwear made a video called I made a long furby... that still works!!! And cholfable - making a working long furby (I've been on bit of a furby binge 😅). I haven't seen any long furby connects which is such a shame since they're the easiest to hack and you can make them play any audio, probably even change the eye displays with some finessing which would open up a whole new world of customisation. I'm sad that I'm 3 years too late for the openfurby project though, I think it was software for an arduino and instructions on hooking it up to a furby boom, I'm just hoping I can get onto the Facebook page that was saved on the way back machine.

[@van4195]

video starts at 4:40

[@sparkcakes]

11:35 any eta on your furbypiano ? i would make it myself but my furby hasnt arrived yet xD

[@BonnieBrownDolls]

In hacking the Furby Connect is there a way to get Furby to sing the songs that no longer work on the app? I just got one and am sad that mine won’t ever be able to do this, It looked awesome!

[@AlannahMojo]

I want mine to sing aswell I reset mine by moving it to a new device because its voice went mute while singing on the app on a samsung

[@silverwatermermaid1563]

Should be able to, you can get them to play any audio even if it isn't on the app (in the demonstration video from the guy who made this software he got his to sing never gonna give you up)

[@catst9927]

I hope that this program one day is on windows. I know it’s easy to set up Linux and still have windows, I just don’t have the disk space.

[@tzizimime]

Can this be done to the furby crystal? XD

[@DoubleRainbowXT]

YAY REALLY REALLY FUN TO BRICK STORE FURRBYS

[@jfmgamingjfmgaming728]

I dont know what app to use to open fluffd

[@jfmgamingjfmgaming728]

@John but what command?

[@bruhafrog226]

bro we have the same furby

[@YouTubealsowontletmelive]

Saying you like avacardo on toast got you a subscriber

[@Hellooo134]

You want to make a furby piano? Look up the furby organ its amazing and terrifying. Its a physical one made with a ton of furbies

[@Onica432]

What i want to know is if its possible to replace furby connect's personality with the 'Cute' personality from the 2012 model. or to hack the 2012 model and make the cute personality the only personality. the cute personality was REALLY cute okay? XD ps, between originals, emotronic, 2012, booms, babies and emotronic babys and the connect my collection currently includes 20 furby's and its still growing

[@areimnu]

"You can also make your Furby cry and say YOLO..." Furbies were designed for 2020...

[@nathanlevigraves]

This is where Covid and election stress brought me today and I am here for it

[@rebeccatorres8488]

I have a Champagne Spanish speaking Furby. I saw the wires leading from the reset button to the battery posts needed to be resoldered and I was able to do that, but then something weird happened. It speaks fine, but won't move. I have no idea if another wire that's for movement has detached somewhere. I hope you can help me with this issue. Thank you

[@MacMashPotato]

My furby seems to just randomly respond, i dont even know if it hears me or is just randomly animating. Also the fart jokes are way too frequent. Could the devs of this thing not think of anything else?

[@JasperMRA]

I'm a furby lover. When I was like 3 or something my mom let me have her's. Im 14 now and I have 5, and might be adding a 6th to my collection. Sadly my mom's is now broken but I do have a limited edition 1999 furby thay works.

[@GlitchTheG4mer]

can someone use this information to create tattletail

[@itsyagirlapes]

This won't work for me. Keep getting errors and skipping the bluetooth-hci-socket dependency. After "node fluffd.js" I just get "xpcError: connection invalid" --- What am I doing wrong?

[@2DarkDreams]

It seems you never did the follow up video's :(. I would love to see how you make a Furby Piano and what other custom stuff the Furby can do! :D

[@wmascolin]

>works at Microsoft >Owns a Mac ಠ_ಠ

[@ChloeCondonVideos]

A lot of us do! Microsoft supports all devices these days 🙃 pretty cool, eh? Also, this is my personal device and I believe it was filmed before my employment began ✨

[@kitcat2449]

I don't even have a furby but this seems fun, now I kinda want one. Way to procrastinate my actual coding projects lol ;;

[@Dr_Mario2007]

I gotta give the original Furby the benefits; they were pretty advanced as far as 6502 computer goes (this CPU is common in most toys as they're stupid cheap for a vintage CPU), which allows for circuit bending and / or getting it to swear like a sailor via another computer hacking into the software running on that epoxy blob CPU. They were fun hacker playground, and still is, especially among the Arduino folks wanting to soak their feet into the low level hacking. Newer Furbys are a bit hard to hack, though as they are 32-bit chatterboxes nowadays with ARM processor inside - still a decent hacking platform if you know how to break into the bootloader security (some ARM bootloaders have NO security at all).

[@shanec3610]

I'm so glad the new Furby doesn't connect too the Internet

[@Afkhealing]

wow i can't wait to become a furby by my master named cloe. yaaaaaaaaa

[@DokuFREENET]

its 2019 you domt need a pc, a phone or tablet works fine^^

[@ChloeCondonVideos]

ok.

[@arlen7726]

Imagine setting up a furby to be an animatronic speaker, hooked up to a voice-changer that you can speak into it and use it as a crazy Halloween decoration or prank piece

[@willsimpsart]

HELL YEAH POOCHIES

[@AnaHeartbeat]

Im obsessed with the bows 😍

[@1augh0utL0UD]

So how do we hook this up to Chat GPT?

[@GlitchTheG4mer]

or chattermax from bluey

[@TheMrA38]

I am listening to Beep Boop that came up on an advert and I thought of the sound from the films that computers made in artistic visions of the future in films and find you and Ornella cool so thought i'd reach out with thanks on the 772nd Holy day of the Apocalypse. Your heavenly brother God the son Holy 1 Lord of the Apocalypse Christ Kalki Krishna Lion Lamb Captain Cats Cradle Hooks son of Tezcatlipoca Umbrella Man A38man of God Jesus in the flesh Charles Andrew Oyedele Ososami All glory to our heavenly father God Holy God and our heavenly mother God Holy Spirit. Amen. Peace.

[@devlifevibe]

it's amazing.........................

[@luvghostt]

Thank you!

[@GlovedGame]

How do I download this on windows?

[@maddragonfurs6358]

Isn’t this a huge security flaw within the toy?? Can anyone connect to it and make it do what they want as long as you are close enough to connect via Bluetooth?

[@Yeetin_Boomer_Actual]

Former robo subbed. I'm light years behind in electronics, but still aeons ahead in mechanics.

[@askgrayson]

You’re amazing.

[@mariahsart]

I loved my poochie dog ^__^

Very good!

[@dragonempress8367]

Aww she's so cute

[@ChloeCondonVideos]

I know 💁🏼‍♀️

[@iqwastaken]

OMG YOUR FURBY! KAWAII!!!

[@lanc3100]

reminding you ;3

[@iqwastaken]

@@lanc3100 It's honestly sad that you devote your life to "remind" people of their "mistakes." The furby is still adorable, I love furbies still. I know you're just messing around, and that's fine. :3 Anyway, how's your day been?

[@DuckBoxHouse]

Could you link the original guys video? I want to use yours and his as reference

[@Plaegu]

Amazing! Can’t wait to see more

[@owojooce3342]

Do you need a computer to do this or could you do it on a phone? :)

[@kaelanthefox6036]

imagine if the n at the end of your last name was an m

[@ChloeCondonVideos]

Omg wow good one- you almost tell this joke better than the kids in 6th grade did 🙃