Furby on Karpoke - Just Another Bloghttp://karpoke.ignaciocano.com/tags/furby/Recent content in Furby on Karpoke - Just Another BlogHugo -- 0.159.0esSat, 18 Jan 2014 15:58:00 +0100Reverse Engineering a Furbyhttp://karpoke.ignaciocano.com/2014/01/18/reverse-engineering-a-furby/Sat, 18 Jan 2014 15:58:00 +0100http://karpoke.ignaciocano.com/2014/01/18/reverse-engineering-a-furby/<blockquote> <p>This past semester I’ve been working on a directed study at my university with Prof. Wil Robertson reverse engineering embedded devices. After a couple of months looking at a passport scanner, one of my friends jokingly suggested I hack a Furby, the notoriously annoying toy of late 1990s fame. Everyone laughed, and we all moved on with our lives.</p> <p>However, the joke didn’t stop there. Within two weeks, this same friend said they had a present for me. And that’s how I started reverse engineering a Furby.</p>