Control a Raspberry Pi Zero enpowered furby via a served Jupyter notebook or via a restless API.
The victim, looking scared...
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The objective is to make the furby easy to control and customise. Say in a Furby served Jupyter notebook within the local network:
from pyfurby import Furby
furby = Furby()
furby.wait_until_squeezed()
furby.say('Get your filthy hands off me')
furby.wait_until_moved()
furby.say('Put me down you degenerate')
It contains several methods, ranging from the comical
furby.flutter() # it flutters its eyelids
to the useful
furby.recite_ip()
And can be set commands remotely:
furby.restless()
The idea and the majority of the setup came form a blog post However, there were lots of problems and differences. Namely
- the code here is different
- the components are squeezed in differently
- gyroscope
This project can be divided into:
On the software side, I was disappointed that Alexa not on an Echo cannot play music.
However, making it serve a jupyter notebook and having a nice API (pyfurby) mean that it's rather fun.
As a result it is not a Furbexa, but a pyfurby. What do you reckon Furby?
from pyfurby import Furby
furby = Furby()
furby.say('I rather have my fur back on, you creep!')
In fact, I am going to find someone who can sew to make it a lab coat so it can give instructions at open days.