I’m too old to have had a Teddy Ruxpin, but we purchased one on ebay. Looks like this might be the first project he wants to participate in that revolves around software / hardware development. Mostly he is into MindCraft et al.
Come to find out the Chip isn’t available until the summer. That will give me time to get the other components.
[quote]In the 1980s, a talking teddy bear called Teddy Ruxpin took the world by storm. Now, Oakland engineer Andrew Langley is bringing Teddy back. He hacked the bear’s circuitry and installed C.H.I.P., the $9 computer that his company, Next Thing, had just crowd-funded. The 1-GHz computer can run text-to-voice algorithms that let the bear read anything
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[url]http://www.popsci.com/hack-teddy-bear-to-say-anything[/url]