![]() ![]() Posted in Toy Hacks Tagged alexa, AlexaPi, Amazon Echo, animatronic, arduino, raspberry pi, servo, teddy ruxpin Post navigationįictional Computers: The Three Body Problem 54 Comments And the way toy manufacturers are going, they might just beat us hackers to the punch. This isn’t the first time that Teddy Ruxpin has gone under the knife in the name of hacks, and it likely won’t be the last. And those eyes and that nose really need to get into the game as well. The result is a reasonable animation, although we’d say a little tweaking of the Arduino script might help the syncing. A Raspberry Pi running AlexaPi joined the bear’s recently vacated thorax with the audio output split between the bear’s speaker and the analog input on the Arduino. With the bear once again in control of its faculties, embarked on giving it something to talk about. The first video below shows the original servos being gutted and modern micro servos grafted in, allowing control of the mouth, eyes, and nose via an Arduino. Having located a Teddy Ruxpin on eBay for far less than the original $70 that priced it out from under his childhood Christmas tree, quickly learned that major surgery would be necessary to revive the Ruxpin. Alexa Ruxpin?Īs if stuffing Alexa inside a talking fish weren’t bad enough, now Amazon’s virtual assistant can talk to you through the creepy retro plush thanks to ’s trip down memory lane. It is made from a Backpack Teddy body with its electronics plus its animation mechanism with WOW eyes, nose and mouth mated to the mechanics and the "skin" of the same WOW head.Behold the unholy union of Amazon’s Alexa and that feature-limited animatronic bear from the 80s, Teddy Ruxpin. Here is a picture of my final hybrid version. I love the cartridge arrangement of the Teddy, the audio is clear and using the cartridges is foolproof. I made several hybrid Teddies, using parts from WOW II gen bears and mechanisms from Backpack versions. ![]() Also the body is very well made, with separate layer for the extremities and separate from the body itself. Also the nose/mouth parts are made with thicker and stronger pivot parts than the Playskool ones. ![]() This arrangement is longer lasting than the belt/pulley arrangement. Its animation mechanics it is almost identical to WOWIIgen/Playskool, but it has only one belt and the other pulleys are replaced by toothed gears. The whole audio and control mechanism is digital, hardly anything to break. I gave one to my granddaughter, she dropped it on its nose countless times without any damage. In my opinion it was the sturdiest iteration of all the Ruxpins, other than the WCT version. I am very surprised that the Backpack Teddy has such a bead reputation. Thank you very much for reading this post!ĭ/Teddy_Ruxpin-fix-1.html ![]() Please Reply with any credible sources you useĪnd I will make my best effort to implement it onto this board as soon as possible.Īnd don't forget that we can always give someone in trouble a helping hand when they need it. My first contribution to this board will be to give off some of my favourite online sources for WOW repair. Members of the community can freely give and receive information involving the inner workings of the WOW toys they had gotten. New thread every time something went awry, which would become a heavy burden for collectors like me, so I am planning on creating this thread so that these Before, if somebody here needed help with repairs on a WOW talker, they would have to create a brand Important piece of the puzzle, for lack of a better word. After I got help from Illiopmom for how to troubleshoot and repair a talking Goofy I had recently acquired on eBay, I had realized that this Forum was missing an ![]()
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