I Turned a Furby into an Amazon Echo. I Give You: Furlexa
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- Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2017
- By combining a Raspberry Pi Zero W (a tiny computer), Amazon's open-source Alexa Voice Service software, and a few other electrical components, I converted my normal Furby into a Furby Echo. I give you: Furlexa.
Read the full guide: howchoo.com/g/otewzwmwnzb/ama...
Learn how to build a "normal" Raspberry Amazon Echo (without a Furby): howchoo.com/g/zjrhmjc4mwi/bui...
The amazing background music is "Microchip" by Jason Farnham, from the RUclips Audio Library. 
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Good video, but please do not burn furbies. They are good boys.
Moggie Delight why not?
They are good boys.
Moggie Delight And good girls. Furbys can be girls too.
couldnt agree more n V n Furbies are good boys, girls, and everything in-between!
TRIGGERED, HOW DARE YOU NOT MENTION HERMAPHRODITES
I was here before Furby's took over the planet. The year is 2078 and furby's now have turned the tables and have humans as Alexa's.
GatorsFishchannel lolll come to save us from the future
Is there anything we can do to stop this madness?
im here years after that.
you guys need to rely on the ocean more often, man...
Oh no, i'm getting a Furby Boom soon... Will these take over the world too?
@@kerakn_ I'm here after that..... You people need to obey these more often......they have arms now....
It's pretty cool that one motor did everything. There are other toys like that, too. Those toy makers were under so much pressure to make the toys cheap as possible, and they got pretty creative. And then at some point went crazy probably.
well, its a tiger electronics product so those designers and engineers went crazy long ago in the pursuit of cheapness
The 2006 and 2007 baby alive runs the mouth and eyes with a single motor too
Take all my money and give me that Furlexa!!!
Mitchell Williams not everyone can work with electronics, even if simple in some opions.
I'm one of those people. However, people who can do this stuff get to happily take advantage of our disability to work electronics lol. I commission lots of people to work on my electronics. Other way around lots of people who can't sew commission me for stuff I believe easy lol. The world's cool like that. We all have our strengths & weaknesses c:
Just make one..it will mean more
I can take your money but can’t give you the furbi
Cody Cold you don't have to know how to work electronics. You just have to know how to surf RUclips and EBay. RUclips for the step-by-step tutorial and EBay for the spare parts. You can do the same with sewing and crafts. Never opened an Android before I cracked my S4 and ordered an EBay digitizer and followed instructions. Never made a plastic spoon flower til I saw it on Facebook and got a wild notion to do one just for kicks. LOL If you have the money to burn, more power to ya. But there is a certain satisfaction that comes with completing a project you do yourself.
Nice! could use a quieter motor, maybe tweak the lip flap to get it closer to the uncanny valley
Its not the motor, its all the gears that move the face
That's actually pretty cool. Would be cooler if it still did furby stuff. Also, goddam those actuators are loud.
like hanging upside down, eyes stare you down no matter where you at, run & talk when out of batteries. yeah no thank you.
@@23rdwhitei own more than 10 and i've never had this happen. but i've heard it can happen because of excess energy built up inside. they are pretty old after all.
This would be a good product actually.
Good for what?
Good for nightmares?
The next generation of Furbies should be like this!
I need one of these in my life
Actually a guy did hack a Furby connect, the last generation of Furbies
Awesome project!!! Please put a voice transformer on the voice! That Alexa voice is not suitable for a cute little Furby.
FuzzyWobble Yes!
I think it would be so funny if instead it had a super super deep demon voice
FuzzyWobble this
That's require a completely new setup for the gears. There is a single motor that basically runs the entire mechanism on a loop, or opens/closes the eyes.
CREEPY
I would wholeheartedly buy one for every room in my house, PLEASE make them available!
That is such a cool mod. I want to make one now!
nobble wow
You forgot the words:creation,idea,machine etc
So you used mod
Chez Pig mod, modification or modified, -.-
Very disappointing. I wanted it to talk like a Furby, not Alexa ;) Seriously though, this is why the Pi is such a great bit of kit. Love this idea, well done!
WANT. WANT. WANT
*WANT*
Nice Simpsons reference
224 like
no.... NEED
*need
Tin Min wanted a heart not a brain.
Gregn604 Whoops, there goes my Wizard of Oz knowledge!
it was the scarecrow that said something arround about: "i don't have a brain, but still i can talk. but lots of people without brains do an awful lot of talking!"
I'm too dumb to make this myself
Can I buy one from you for $100?
It is a cool video, but the background music overpowers the Furlexa, when it talks.
tequilabrad Thanks for the feedback! We’ll pay more attention to this in our next video.
"The original furbies couldn't spy on you... so I fixed that!"
I used to think that going inside furbies that were working fine just ruined them. Until I saw this. I’m a big furby fan, and this is so cool!
I literally searched for a tutorial for this and found one of how to do it. THANK YOU!
"It's 69 degrees and cloudy skies."
Nice.
- Hey Siri, how do you make your Furby speak like Alexa?
- Here’s how you do it: Watch the whole video and see how the person in it does. Okay?
- Okay.
Other then the noisy movements and muzzled voice that is really awesome!
shoulda just called it flexa
Sounds like it goes to the gym a lot.
Damn that furby must of been FLEXaING on others
I was looking specifically for this, and I found it, fantastic.
This was awesome! Subscribed!
Oh my gosh!! This is so cool, you should sell it in the store!! I would love to have one of those if I could
i love this so much this needs to be something that you can buy in stores
This is super cool!
Love it. Greetings from Brandon FL! Thanks for posting. My furbies send their regards. Lol
What a cool project
The skynet reference was a good one
Didn't know I needed this in my life!! 😍
This is cursed. Thank you for this abomination.
Strong hatchetfield vibes, super cool!
I love Furbies. Now this I want!
However, it would be cooler if the thing between it's eyes lit up when you asked it questions.
You really deserve the gold button, too ❤❤ Your work is really great und should have MILLIONS of fans.
The mouth being out of sync kinda bugs me, but still love it
Awesome!, But I hate you. I have been working on my own Pi-Zero + Furby +Digital assistant and learning electronics for months because I wanted to be the first to do this.
Nothing Personal and this is awesome
Buuuut I hate you for getting this done first!
Those furbys without fur look like endoskeletons xd
That's awesome!
This is really cool :P
Furlexa! I love it!
How awesome !
The two best electronic supposed electronic spies now fused together!
Paz Costa del Rio you didn't need to say electronic twice just so you know
+carolyn mmitchell oh...i was sleeping when wrote that...
This makes me wanna learn more about technology and electronics. I wanna mess around with that kind of stuff as well. All the possibilities 💲
cool project!
Imagine you’re watching a movie and the lights turn off and then furlexa is just waiting behind you
this. is. AWESOME!
Alt title: a furby becomes big brain
good idea!!!
considering i have an unreasonable amount of furbies i could do this with time and patience and just have furbies all around the house
That is so cool! I want one of those. That should be a real thing in stores. I would buy it.
This is honestly amazing! Having had a Furby as a young child, it'd be so cool to have one of these myself! One problem, I can't work with electronics ;-;.
Absolute madman
That’s freaking cool 😊
i freaking love this!!
What have you done!?! You have given Evil a new voice! And made it smarter too...
Definitely have it so the eyes open when it hears it's wake word and it listening and then it's mouth moves when it's speaking.
Someone's going market this watch..
clever stuff.
I love it!! I want four!
It should have an alexa themed fur with an alexa symbol on the belly.
You are my hero.
My favorite part is the Furby burning to death in that fire pit.
i have a alexa in my room, the example at the beginning triggered it and started talking xD
I'd love this project on a long furby or oddbody furby!
Heck I want one!
I want to build one of these I have a few furbies without a working speaker kicking around. Quick question is there anything you think should be done differently now days? Or new products such as better boards or other hardware that are better suited. Thanks for the help.
Now this is content.
Really nice but for next time please turn of this darn anoying audio loop that is louder than everything else and makes it nearly impossible to focus on the furlexa voice...
My son loves Tattletale but didn't know what a Furby was. Been years since I saw one so was surfing and ended up here. 🤣🤣🤣 It really would be cooler if it had a more Furby sounding voice.
Like the billy bass one
that would be the kind of voice assent that furby fans would like
"Furby turn off the lights" "Okay, *insert your name here*" You see the lights flicker off instantly. You then hear a faint sound of gears turning mixed in with robotic laughter you can barely make out as you drift off into sleep.
I would have a furlexa. I could use it to creep my friends and family out.
3:00 Thanks for the weather info
- Clearwater
I'm going to give this a go, jut ordered the Furby! Any new additions/modifications since first making this? Also, and words of advice on how I can make it extra creepy and adding an LED to each eye when Furby first wakes up or talks maybe?
this is amazingly terrifying. this power is alot for 1 man to handle.
I love it !!! Just wish that furby motor was not so loud lol it almost overpowers the voice
I was six when I had a furby in 98, 99, and by chance my son saw Mitchell's vs Machines on Netflix and wanted a Furby for his 6th birthday. Got him the Furby boom, since I remember as a kid having my furby die. This Furlexa is such a cool idea, but it would be so cool if the voice was also in Furby voice.
Cute! I did something similar to my teddy ruxpin :)
Nice 👏👏👏
Dr Blankenstein approves! Well done
Maybe if Furlexa version can really sound like Furby when answering the instructions or whatever the version will look so pretty awesome cool and cute.
Awesome! Put some cameras in the eyes!
Awesome
This is the kind of project I like. I think I'm going to make one and just get Alexa to play Thrash Metal on a loop.
Dude when you said what a furby is to furlexa my Alexa started telling me what one is lol
WOH DUDE DAT COOL
You can solder phone batteries to fit underneath
Hey thanks for this! I bet I can easily make a power bank mini backpack to take furlexa out drinking with me
This video is amazing. If I’m going to do this, I want to modify the motor to only move his mouth to make it more realistic although I would lose out on the eyes and ears moving when Alexa is triggered for a few seconds.
Good call! You can definitely do that with some clever programming and either a) swapping out the stock DC motor for a stepper motor, or b) using the cam position sensor to determine where the gearbox currently is.Totally possible, but would've taken more time than I had (especially after how much time I already spent on it).
So cool! How did you get it to use a custom wake word like "furlexa"?
pleas i would love to see this with one of the newer furbys!
I want one now
you could make so much money with this.
ok i really want this now...
Nice
ok but hear me out. Long furby with 8 arms with an Alexa in it. ON THE BOTTOM OF IT there is a robot vacuum cleaner.
Needs to do this with the newer models
You should do this with the furby connect that would be something else